Laying ceramic tile

Alignment Alignment wall surfaces - one of the most important stages, and the better quality it is held, the easier it is to carry out further work. Alignment of the walls make for a correction of a large slope or curvature of their surface. Before the production of works smooth walls pre dent hammer or chisel. If there are bumps, then with wall surfaces of soft materials (gypsum blocks, shtukatarka etc.) mounds are easily removed with a shovel hammer, chisel and hammer or a spatula. If the mound should be removed from the hard surface, then rescue the grinder with a disc more concrete. When srubanii knolls m below the ceiling in the corners of the premises is necessary to work carefully in these areas could be electric. After removing the mounds are buried small pothole solution. Leveling compounds are used, if the curvature of the wall surface is minimal. Before laying the tile floor and walls primed. Priming enhances the base, "killing" the dust and provides a better grip. The surface can not primed, if tile is laid on the adhesive mixture on a strong foundation (concrete, sturdy plaster). Primer and adhesives shall conform to the surfaces to be coated, and the type of premises. Bathroom advise moisture mixture. Plastering mesh stretched before leveling plaster walls, if there is no confidence in the strong adhesion of plaster to the base or layer exceeds 20 mm. Plastering walls made of cement or beacons set gypsum plaster. Such solutions can be made from dry mixes that are sold in stores. Gypsum mixture easier to work and allow the work faster. Before you lay the tile, make sure the wall is strictly perpendicular to each other, ceiling and floor. It's best to check with a spirit level. If there is the slightest deviation, after laying the tile curvature will be immediately apparent. Old tiles on the walls and floor must shoot down. To test the deviations of the walls of the vertical axis there are two methods of measurement: with a plumb and level with. When using a plumb error is less. To apply the plumb line in the corners of the walls near the ceiling are driven nails or established brands to secure the cord plummet from alabaster or gypsum. Then on these markers hung plumb. With the help of ruler or tape measure to verify the gap between the cord and plumb the wall in several places along the entire height. If the check is made level, the technology is similar to verification of sex, should only look to another eye-level. Allowed the slope of the walls 0,2%, ie the difference between the gap from the ceiling and the floor does not exceed 2 mm per meter of height. Durability test surfaces prostukivaniem. If there is bad that hold the layers, then you will hear a sound buhtyaschy. These layers will need to clean off to a solid brick or concrete foundations. If when checking prostukivaniem surface crumbles like sand, it can be enhanced by special means or removed. If the wooden walls of the room, they were before facing tiles shall be covered with a metal grid with a cell size of 10-15 mm. Metal mesh nailed not directly on the wooden wall, and the thick wooden bars of 20-25 mm and a width of 30-40 mm. Between these strips and the surface of wooden wall pre-paving layer roofing or roofing material. Metal mesh were coated with cement mortar with the addition of fibrous materials (asbestos-6-7-th grade, tow), then this surface plaster with cement mortar 1:3. The thickness of the layer of plaster must be at least 15 mm. Plaster surfaces in preparation for facing operates without smoothing and grout buildup. When laying tiles on the wood floors they first need to upholster steel mesh, then the grid to lay screed - concrete layer thickness of 2-3 cm, then put another layer of metal mesh and another layer of concrete of the same thickness as the first. After which the resulting surface should be carefully smoothed and put on her scratches (grooves) for better grip of the solution, which will then be stacked ceramic tile, with the floor. After setting of concrete (3-5 days) you can start laying the floor. Cladding with ceramic tiles produced in aligned-cleaned of dirt, mud and alluvium grease. Despite the fact that today there is a wide variety of adhesive mixtures, which allow the liner directly on the old tiled coverage, better to remove old tiles. Refuse to clean the old tile is only when a strong lack of time, and only on the condition that the surface perfectly smooth. Dismantling of old tiles made with a hammer and chisel. Then the wall is cleaned with a spatula from the remnants of adhesive or mortar. If a tile had been previously laid on the painted surface, be it further purification. If is coated with ceramic tile wall has been painted, the paint must be completely clean off, again regardless of the availability of glue mixtures, which are designed for laying tile on painted surfaces. Experience shows that good traction with the base paint - a great rarity. If you do not do well initially holding the tiles in a while will start to gradually move away from the wall with cement mortar, up "coat," and eventually fall off. Shoot down the paint with a hard surface it is convenient hammer with a shovel. Speed ??work is very high, but a lot of noise. You can still tear the paint by cutting device with a nozzle kardschetkoy. If you can not mechanize the job, the paint is not bad strays hatchet. Layers of paint that kept poorly, you can clean off with a spatula or loop. But the one cleaning the walls from the paint can not be restricted. If you want to tile well-behaved on the wall, should be diluted with water neat cement to the consistency of sour cream and a liquid, dipping into the mixture a small piece of cloth, one end clamped in his hand, and the other, slapping the wall to put a thin layer of cement. Rag should keep in contact with the surface of the cement wall stain is not thicker than 2.3 mm. Thus primed to clean the entire surface of the cement wall, which will be lined with tiles. Tiles on a wall can be laid only after it is completely dry. The walls are covered with wallpaper, you must also clean. To do this, wet the wallpaper with hot water and armed with a spatula. The operation is very simple. After the elimination of paper paintings, wall kardschetkoy further purified from the remnants of wallpaper paste. If the subject is not facing the entire wall, the wallpaper is removed from the area, which is slightly less than would be covered with tiles. With extreme caution tile is glued so it went a bit on the wallpaper.