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| Good tiling is relatively easy if accompanied by careful | | | | thoroughly for several months.Flaky, crumbly and |
| planning. Estimate the number of tiles you need | | | | absorbent surfaces can be primed with a PVA-based |
| beforehand and know your design requirements if | | | | adhesive. Use a building/construction type as directed. |
| you are introducing a pattern or border.(furniture | | | | Waterproof adhesive should also be used in areas |
| stores) Then set out your starting point, and plan | | | | which could become wet.Old ceramic tiles do not |
| how to deal with awkward corners or recesses. | | | | have to be removed: you can tile on top. Check if |
| Take care with spacing and bedding the tiles and | | | | they are firmly fixed - if not, use a good tile adhesive |
| clean off excess adhesive and grout as you go. | | | | to stick them into place. Make sure that the joints |
| Protect your eyes with safety glasses or goggles | | | | between the new tiles are not in the same place as |
| when cutting tiles. Be careful of snapped tile edges | | | | the old ones.You do not have to re-plaster a wall |
| because they can cut you. To protect sensitive or | | | | that is either bare brick or taken down to brick level. |
| dry skin, gloves should be used when applying | | | | Use exterior grade ply or plasterboard fixed to the |
| adhesive or grout (the ready-mixed paste which fills | | | | wall to give a clean and flat base surface on which to |
| the gaps between adjacent tiles). | | | | tile.Do not attempt to tile over wallpaper. This must |
| You can easily brighten up your bathroom or kitchen | | | | be stripped back to plaster first. If tiling over a |
| by using wall tiles. These are both decorative and | | | | gloss-painted surface, roughen up the surface with |
| functional. | | | | coarse abrasive paper to provide a key to which the |
| Wall tiles provide bright and easy-clean surfaces | | | | adhesive will bond. |
| which are especially useful in kitchens and bathrooms. | | | | Measuring & planning |
| They are hard wearing and water resistant, and can | | | | The number of tiles needed for plain, uninterrupted |
| help to brighten up small rooms or shaded work | | | | wall areas is easy to calculate. Find out the number |
| areas by reflecting natural light.(tv stands) | | | | required for the height and for the width (counting |
| Ceramic wall tiles are available in a wide choice of | | | | part tiles as whole tiles). Multiply the two together |
| sizes, colours, designs and shapes. Square tiles are | | | | and add a further 10% for breakages.There can be |
| the most common, but other shapes include | | | | significant variations between batches of tiles. Always |
| rectangles, hexagons, diamonds, octagons or | | | | buy the quantity you need in the first place and |
| interlocking designs. Wall tiles are thinner (4 to 6mm | | | | check that all the boxes are from the same |
| thick) than floor tiles, as they are subject to less | | | | batch.Window recesses and alcoves should be |
| wear. They are easier to work with and cut or snap | | | | calculated separately and added on. If you are using |
| toa scored line. They are also brittle and will chip or | | | | patterned tiles as inserts, these must be calculated |
| break easily if dropped. Combination tiles feature a | | | | and deducted from your total figure.If you want to |
| pattern or design motif on a background and | | | | incorporate patterned or motif tiles, plan their exact |
| coordinate with plain tiles. They allow you to add | | | | positions using graph paper, with each large square |
| interest to an otherwise plain wall. Universal tiles have | | | | representing a tile. Shade in where you want the |
| bevelled edges and/or spacing lugs to give correct | | | | patterned tiles to fall. Stick with this plan because it |
| spacing for grout between tiles. | | | | may be difficult to change once you have started |
| Surface preparation | | | | tiling. |
| Tiles can be stuck to most surfaces with the right | | | | |