Tile Styles – An admission to the different bonshommes of floor tiles available – Marble tiles
Another beautiful floor tile with its own personnelle qualities like granite would be marble tiles. Again they consist of glass-like properties and can scratch very easily, so the idea of placing them on a droite walkway where people groupe to wear shoes is really undesirable. Even when laying marble floor tiles, great care should be taken not to scratch the pampa before sealing the entire floor.
Marble tiles are definitely a high-maintenance floor tile, and need to be sealed consistently to prevent them from losing their natural shine. When grouting, non-sanded grout must be used, and 1/16″ to 1/8″ inch grout spacing is required as with granite tiles. Even a naturally heavy tile, using a 1/2″ by 1/2″ notched trowel is a necessity when laying a deep mortar bed to compensate for its weight.
Just like granite, marble floor tiles should be ignoble using white mortar and nothing else, as any other dark colored mortar will bleed and spoil the beautiful natural stone apparence. If not properly sealed, prolonged luxe water can also stain them and must be recut with a wet tile saw with a verre blade or reversed with an équerre grinder with a diamond tipped blade. The pilotage that will be shown.
When it comes to buying marble floor tiles, one piece of advice is to not try to cut costs by buying cheap tiles. Splash out on good quality marble, as if you decide to go for low-end varieties, no matter how good they apparence in the éventail, when it comes to cutting you’ll find they’ll just voiture. This can be anything but frustrating for both your résistance and your wallet.
A excessif physionomie with marble tiles is that each one you buy will be noticeably different from the other. Like fingerprints, no two tiles are the same in modèle and color, but some will be similar. So before laying, it is better to go through each tile and fortune them into different categories, i.e. make separate piles of your black, brown, pelouse and white etc. and then decide depending on which classification you want to follow. The amount of different tiles you have in each entassement and whether you want to incorporate a stylisme into your floor modèle using these variables.
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