Hello, everyone, I am the number one decoration person and share decoration tips every day. Today I will mainly share my decoration experience about 21 details of bricklayers and tiling, which are very important and have been ignored by many decoration friends.

Hello, everyone, I am the first person to decorate, and I share useful information about decoration every day. Today mainly shares the decoration experience about 21 details of bricklayers and tiling, which are very important and have been ignored by many decoration friends. Therefore, a series of problems will occur later, and may even affect your mood.

1. These things need to be purchased in advance.

Some things need to be prepared in advance for decoration, including floor drains, door stones , flue check valves, urinals , etc. These bricklayers will use them when tiling , if you do not prepare in advance, it will delay your home decoration project and increase costs.

2. After the window sealing is completed,

make sure that the window sealing in the house is in place. At least the window frame should also be installed in place. Otherwise, the bricklayer will not be able to close the window, which will also affect the decoration construction period and increase the cost.

3, tile laying order

It is generally recommended that give priority to laying kitchen tiles. After the wall tiles are laid, the customized cabinets can be brought to the home for re-measurement of dimensions, without delaying the cabinet production cycle.

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Cabinets

4. Cover the sewer pipes

Seal all kinds of drains and with finished covers to prevent cement mortar from falling into the sewer pipes and causing blockage when tiling.

5. Check the tiles

After the tiles are transported to the house site, remember to check them for acceptance. Check whether the brand, quantity and specifications of the tiles are consistent with the contract. If there are quality problems, they must be rejected.

6. Pay attention to the water absorption rate of ceramic tiles

If the water absorption rate of the ceramic tiles you purchase is greater than 5%, they must be soaked in water before pasting. Direct laying can easily cause hollowing. You can check the water absorption rate of ceramic tiles by looking at the packaging box or asking the merchant. .

7. Remember to typesetting

before laying the tiles. Before laying the tiles, the tiles need to be typed. Generally, the non-whole brick part will be placed in a position where it can be blocked by furniture such as sofas. For typesetting, you can ask the designer of the ceramic tile store to do the typesetting.

8. Control the width of the brick seams

Remember that the bricklayer must use a special cross card to control the width of the brick seams so that the brick seams can be uniform after being pasted.

9. Pay attention to the slope of the ceramic tiles

Where there are floor drains and drainage holes, the floor drain should be the center of the circle, 1 meter as the radius, and a slope of 1.0-2.0%0 to ensure smooth drainage in the bathroom later.

10, expansion joints

There should also be expansion joints of a certain width at the contact parts between the floor tiles and the wall tiles, to prevent cracking due to thermal expansion and contraction in the future.

11. Clean the brick joints in a timely manner

After the tiles in our home are laid, we need to clean the tile joints and surfaces in time to facilitate the jointing. The beautiful joints need to be done after the base mortar is completely dry, otherwise they will easily fall off. Generally, they should be installed for more than ten times. It would be better if the Queen of Heaven did it.

12. Determine the style of the kitchen and bathroom door

Determine in advance whether the kitchen and bathroom door is double-sided or single-sided. For single-sided doors, the inside of the door opening needs to be tiled.

13. Where the inverted corners meet, make a 45-degree begonia angle, and leave a gap of about 1mm, which is more beautiful. Do not make inverted corner strips , which are ugly and easy to fall off.

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14. Seam between the sky and the earth

The wall tiles and the floor tiles must be seamed to the sky and the ground. That is, the gaps between the floor tiles and the seams between the wall tiles are on the same plane. After being pasted in this way, the effect will be more beautiful and atmospheric.

15, what does

mean? It is best to lay floor tiles and wall tiles by pressing wall tiles onto floor tiles. This way there will be no upward seams, which is beautiful and good for waterproofing.

16. The window sill niche should have a slope of

. Where the sun corners meet, a 45-degree begonia angle should be made, and a gap of about 1mm should be left, which is relatively more beautiful.

17. Hole opening requirements

When opening holes such as water outlets on the brick surface, you must use a special hole opener , so that the holes can be square and beautiful.

18. Checking for hollowing

This is very important. After the ceramic tiles are laid, a hollowing hammer should be used to test and check the hollowing of the ceramic tiles. The hollowing rate of ceramic tiles shall not exceed 5%, and hollowing of wall tiles is not allowed.

19. Check the squareness of the yin and yang angles

Use a right-angled ruler to check the squareness and verticality of the yin and yang angles. They must be 90 degrees, otherwise when bathroom cabinets , kitchen cabinets, etc. are installed later, there will be uneven gaps with the wall , which is very serious. ugly.

20. Check the flatness of the brick surface

Use a 2mm ruler to check the flatness of the brick surface. You can also use a silver coin to slide at the intersection of the cross seams of the ceramic tiles. The sliding is easy and hassle-free. The brick surface is most likely flat.

21. After the completion protection

is accepted, clean the brick surface and paste the floor tile protective film to prevent subsequent construction from scratching the brick surface or a large amount of debris falling into the brick joints, which will affect the later beauty of the joints.

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Decoration bricklayers The cost of labor is not cheap now. Some work that needs to be done must be done in advance. Bricklaying is very important in the entire decoration work. If we think clearly in the early stage, it will indeed save us a lot in the later stage. unnecessary trouble. Remember the keywords: hollow rate, water absorption, flatness, etc.

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