We tell how to make the ceramic tile standing, durable and safe on open balconies and terraces, country houses, entrance areas and entrance venues.
Photo: Kerama Marazzi
The movement along the steps will protect anti-slip notches on the ceramic - from 55 rubles / m), and it will make more convenient milling (rounding) of the edge (from 165 rubles / m)
Materials for external cladding must easily transfer temperature differences and atmospheric effects. For this, ceramics with low water absorbable ability (less than 3%), to which clinker belongs (some collections) and porcelain stoneware. The first is made of highly flatted shale clay by extrusion. Plastic molding allows you to get steps and window sills with smoothly curved "keyboards", elements of complex forms, with depressures and recesses, for designing angles, radius surfaces.
Matte porcelain stoneware collection Marco (Cersanit) under the stone, the size of the tiles is 42 × 42 cm, the thickness is 8.5 cm. Designed for lining of walls and floors both inside and outside (559 rubles / m²). Photo: Cersanit.
Porcelain stonewares produce from a mixture of clay of different varieties, pigments and additives, as well as ceramic tiles. But the homogeneous initial mass of strongly crushed components allows you to apply higher pressing pressure (45-50 MPa) and the temperature under firing (1200 ° C). As a result, dense material with low water absorption is formed - 0.03%, practically non-restrictions in the application.
Photo: Roca.
Choice and installation tile
Grout Ceresit CE 43 (pack 25/2 kg - 1258/307 rub.). Photo: Henkel
Deciding with the type of ceramics for the street, pay attention to the place of its use. On the floor, the tile is subjected to large mechanical loads than on vertical surfaces. It means that it must be resistant to the long-term effects of abrasives. By wear resistance (in accordance with the PEI test), the tiles are divided into five groups. For flooring balconies, stairs for which they go in street shoes, the elements of the PEI-III group are suitable, and PEI-IV and PEI-V groups are suitable for public areas.
It is equally important that these movements are safe. Therefore, its anti-slip qualities becomes an important criterion for choosing ceramics. Tiles with a microrelief of the surface - the optimal version for street facing, especially in those places where high risk slip. And polished and glazed porcelain books better save for interior design.
In the case when the laying of porcelain tiles is carried out at temperatures below 15 ° C, experts recommend using glue compounds with a rapid set of strength.
Grouting "Smart Sow" (Perfekta) (UE 20/2 kg - 642/195 rub.). Photo: Perfekta.
When cladding, use the "double" glue method: on the base and back side of the tile, so that emptiness is not formed between them. Otherwise, the water will penetrate there, accumulate, and having wrapped around and having increased in the amount, the cause of fault or tile tiles. The width of the interputric seams of the outer cladding is chosen according to the format of elements, but not less than 3 mm, in this case the risk of deformation of the coating and the tile separation will be minimal.
Creative (Estima Ceramica) (from 1100 rubles / m²). Photo: Estima Ceramica
From which the service life of the tile depends
Grouting Elast Premium (Bergauf) (UE. 2 kg - 250 rubles.). Photo: Bergauf.
The quality of the outer ceramic lining depends not only on the characteristics of the material itself, but also from the complex of other factors. First of all, it is the preparation of the foundation, the properties of used adhesive and cruel mixtures, compliance with the installation technology. For example, under any ceramic tile laid on the street, it is necessary to make a screed and waterproof it to avoid the penetration of water from above and from the inside. The tiles are desirable to lay on elastic glue mixtures and in no case apply a conventional sand-cement mixture (even with plasticizing additives). Interputer seams need to be filled after lengthening glue using special grouts.
Glue reinforced "Holder" (Perfekta) (UE. 25 kg - 260 rubles.). Photo: Perfekta.
