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How Staining Grout?

Choose a grout stain. Most often, people resort to dying their grout because it’s lost its previous luster and now appears brown and dingy. Rather than going back to the original hue, find a new color to cover up the wear and tear. Although it may sound strange, grout stains that are close in color to dirt are typically the most successful, because you won’t have to worry about the grout becoming discolored again over time.

Light hued grouts blend in and hide the shape of your tiles, while dark grout makes your tiles stand out and is very bold. When possible, look for grout stains that are also a sealant, so that you can skip the final step of sealing the grout. Clean the tile and grout. Get out your cleaning supplies and grab a little elbow grease, because before you can begin staining your grout you need to give it a thorough cleaning.

Use a bleach-water scrub to kill any mold or mildew that might cause problems. Although it might be uncomfortable, use a damp sponge/scrubbing brush to clean your grout and tile, even if it is on the floor. The grout stain cannot be applied to damp grout, so wait 30 minutes or longer after cleaning to begin the application process.

Apply the grout stain. Some grout staining kits come with a small applicator brush, but if yours didn’t, simply use a very small stiff-bristled brush for application. Dip the brush in the grout stain, and carefully paint it onto only the grout. The stain is permanent and cannot be removed from your tile after it dries, so be careful to paint in the lines and wipe off any stain from the tile.

Add additional coats. Depending on the look you’re going for, you may need to add more than one coat of grout stain. If so, wait at least 24 hours for the first layer to dry, and then carefully paint on the second coat of stain. Again, be careful not to accidentally get any stain on the tiles as it is very difficult to remove.

How to choose the floor tiles for the house decoration?

The floor tiles, as the main component of the home space, has disturbed the small heart of the owner from the selection of material, the way of cleaning, and the selection of color. The aesthetic and artistic value of it is being recognized and valued by more and more designers and consumers, and flooring tiles art has gradually become a bright color of space art. Its family members are super, such as polished tiles, rustic tiles, glazed tiles, microcrystalline tiles, antiskid tiles, printed tiles, wall tiles, marble tiles, etc.

Vitrified tiles, vitrified polished tiles and polishing tiles are actually the same products in the market. After polishing, the surface of the ceramic polished tiles have fine pores and fine pores, which is easy to absorb pollutants. So the surface of the polished floor tiles are coated with a layer of antifouling agent and filled with fine holes to ensure that it is not easy to be polluted when used. Glazed rustic tile surface has a glaze, actually a layer of glass, no water absorption, no pollution, easy to handle. If you put a glass-ceramic on all glazed surfaces, it is called barite, which is close to the texture of the stone. The brightness is very high, but it is a composite material, and the price is more expensive. It is relative to the buy polished tiles, although the glaze is easy to suck the dirty, but will not be inside the interior, and the bright light is better for the people’s eyes, so it is more quality. Marble tiles price have vivid texture, color and texture of natural marble, and become the best modern tile manufacturing process.

Check whether the color of the tiles is natural, whether the color difference is obvious, whether there are cracks, spots, blowholes and black spots on the surface. Then it is to check the water absorbency. The water droplets on the top are small and the water absorption is low, and the quality is good. The same quality tiles, the heavier the quality, the better, because of the density. One hand lift, one hand percussion, (small floor tiles) metal feeling, (large floor tiles) echo, texture is better.

There are many kinds of wood tiles, including solid wood flooring, reinforced composite flooring, parquet, PVC plastic flooring, and cork flooring. A decorative material made of wood after drying. Back to nature, the wood texture, the appearance of nature, the material environmental protection, expensive and affectation, can not be too wet, can not be insolate, suitable for rich people’s bedroom, living room and study.

Reinforced composite ceramic wood tiles are made from crushed wood and then processed with glue, preservatives and additives. Stability is better, wood content is high, environmental protection also prevents mat to prevent moth. The scope of application is wide, easy to handle, and suitable for home. Solid wood composite wood flooring design is a multi-storey solid wood composite, retaining the original texture, and increase the size of stability, suitable for the pursuit of natural beauty family use. PVC plastic floor is red everywhere in Europe, America and Japan and South Korea. Polyvinyl chloride material is added, and filler, plasticizer, stabilizer, coloring agent and other pressing films are added. The thickness of the oxygen porcelain wood floor is about 4.5 millimeters, and the quality cork can reach 8.9 millimeters. Compared with solid wood tile flooring, cork flooring has better environmental performance and moisture resistance.

insulation. The construction is simple and easy to install. But it is the shortcomings of all the wood of the common, easy to be dampened, go out before you must remember to close doors and windows, not to prevent thieves, but if the rain, rain floats in, your floor is completely destroyed, they will be the highest, who will be the highest competition. General wood marble tiles are processed and polished, with formaldehyde release, shorter life expectancy, wax maintenance.