tile flooring
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Building Construction
By:Hemant Jindal
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Tile Flooring
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Flooring• Flooring is the general term for a permanent
covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering.
• Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface.
• Materials commonly called flooring include wood flooring, vitrified tile, stone, and various seamless chemical floor coatings.
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Sub Floor• The floor under the flooring is called
the subfloor.
• This provides the support for the flooring.
• The sub floor may be constructed out of concrete as well as other building materials
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SELECTION OF FLOORING MATERIAL
depends upon below factors:• Initial Cost• Appearance• Cleanliness• Durability• Sound Insulation• Fire Resistance• Smoothness• Maintenance
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Tile Flooring
A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls.
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Tile FlooringTiles used were vitrified tiles.Vitrified tiles are of low porosity.
• Floor tiles were set with mortar with ratio 1:3
• Tiles used were of 600mm*600mm and 8mm thick.
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Resistance to Acid & alkaline material.Ready to use after 48hr of application.No polishing work is required.Easy to maintain cleanness.
Merits of Tile Flooring over Marble
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Tile Flooring• There should be no slope provide in
flooring in rooms.• A slope of 4mm-5mm in 1 meter is
provided in the bathrooms and balconies.
• Tiles should be soaked in water for minimum 6 hours before use.
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Tile Flooring• Before using, tiles should be clean
and dried.• At the Entry of the room the tiles
used be of full length.• Spacers are provided between the
tiles to keep proper gap between them and also to prevent the tiles from expansion.
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Tile Flooring• Test for flooring is soundness test, which is done by a rubber hammer.• Slope in the tiles is checked by spirit
level by placing it on the tile of the floor.
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Tile Flooring-Skirting• Skirting Is done to make the
proper finishing of the flooring .
• Skirting is commonly called as DIDO.
• Skirting was of 600*100mm.• Skirting is used from same
tile as used in the flooring.
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Grouting• Grouting is done after 24 hours of
placement of tiles.• Grouting is done with white cement,
some colours may be used in it.• Grouting provides strength and better
finish to the tiles.• Floor should be washed properly after
1 day for better surface finishing.
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Grouting
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Wall Tiling
• The tiles used for walls are of dimension 150*150mm and 8mm thick.
• Wall tile was used with mortar 1:3.• Spacers are provided between the tiles to
make proper gap between the adjacent tiles.• Wall should be cured properly before tiling.• Use cement water thin paste before tiling. • Tiling should be done from bottom to top.
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