Facing the bathroom with tiles: instructions for completing the work

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Facing with a tile of a bathroom

Facing with a tile of a bathroom is basically the most optimal option for decoration. The price of products is quite different, you can choose it exactly according to the state of your wallet.
Today we will tell you how to properly tiling a bathtub and a bathroom. After all, the work of masters is expensive, but everything can be done with your own hands, you just need to arm yourself with knowledge.

Why choose tiles

Facing bathrooms with tiles has not only a good appearance, but also has a number of practical positive qualities:

• Tiles for lining the bathroom are available in various sizes and colors. Here you can choose the material not only for the desired design, but also according to the correct selection of sizes to make waste minimized;
• Ceramic Tile The bathroom perfectly protects the walls from moisture. Also, she is not afraid of low temperatures and therefore can be installed in rooms with non-constant heating;
• Facing tiles for bathrooms are produced with environmentally friendly material and it will not harm your health;

Finishing

Facing with ceramic tiles of the bathroom has its own characteristics during decoration. Everything should be done in a certain order and according to requirements.
Let's now directly understand how tile lining in a bathroom is done in practice.

The choice of tiles for the bathroom and related materials

Before going to the store you need to decide on the required amount of tiles. In order to find out the area of ​​the walls, the width and height of each wall must be multiplied, and the total amount will show the required number of plates.
Considering the fact that during the cladding the tile will be cut, to be safe, from 3 to 5% will need to be added to the total area.
Similarly, after calculating the floor area and armed with data, you can go to the store:

• Ceramic tile for lining the bathroom has a difference from the floor plate. Since the floor load when walking is a big load, it is twice as thick as the wall.

Caution: To reduce the risk of injury, a matte tile is laid on the floor. An important criterion when choosing a tile is its quality, which should be approached with special attention.

• Before buying the selected finishing material, it is worth checking carefully its integrity. As mentioned above, any material, including tile, must be purchased taking into account a small margin.
  Incorrectly calculated area or defect in individual elements will lead to the need to purchase the missing plate. The geometry of the tile is also an important criterion for the quality of the plate.
  The corners of the tiles must be straight, otherwise there will be an uneven seam at the joints of the tiles.

Preparing the walls before laying the tile

Facing with a tile of bathrooms and bathrooms is done on a properly prepared surface. Before laying, you must first prepare the wall surface, which, depending on the material used in the construction of a residential building, can be of different types: wood, brick, concrete.
So:

• The technology for preparing the walls will also depend on the type of their surface and will require special attention, since the reliability and quality of the repair will depend on it.
• The reinforced concrete material used to build the house will require leveling the surface of the walls with the help of soil putty. In this case, the material necessary for the performance of this work and the putty solution specially provided for concrete surfaces will be needed.
• An ideal alignment of the walls with putty is not necessary, as this can be achieved with a tile.

Align the wall

• Brick walls will require compulsory plastering, which is a complex and time-consuming process and will require a lot of time and effort.
• In order to facilitate this process, you can resort to rough plaster and complete the leveling of the surface using moisture-proof drywall. Then transgress to wall cladding tiled stove.
• The process of leveling wooden walls is similar to the process of leveling brick walls, with the only difference being that the waterproofing material provided for this is applied to the wooden walls pre-treated with an antiseptic.

The following materials will be required for work

It is necessary:

• Tiled plate;
• Adhesive mixture;
• Grout for joints;
• Spatula gear and rubber;
• Construction level;
• Rubber mallet for leveling the plate.

Tile fastening

Work on the facing requires focus and attention, since the slightest roughness will be clearly visible especially on the tile of dark tone.
Tiled tiles in the bathroom are done in several stages:

• Start ceramic tiles on prepared surfaces bathroom walls necessary from the second bottom row. To do this, draw a line and beat the metal profile along it.
  It will serve as an emphasis. This is done so that moisture entering the gap joints does not drip onto the floor and does not adversely affect the floor covering.
• The next step is to prepare the adhesive solution. Water is added to the specialized dry adhesive mixture, and then using a drill with a special nozzle with blades, the mixture is stirred until a homogeneous composition is obtained.
• To correctly calculate the mass, the instructions on the package should be studied with the necessary proportions of the mixture.

Attention: It is worth noting that an excessively thick solution will not fully show its adhesive properties, and excessively rare will spread over the surface of the plate and will not give the required layer thickness. The selection of the required consistency of the adhesive mixture will provide a strong fastening of the tile with the surface.

• The adhesive mixture is applied evenly to the wall surface. Then, with the help of a notched trowel, the required layer thickness is set, and excess mixture is removed.
• Now the tile is leaning against the wall with a layer of adhesive mixture applied to it, pressed and aligned in all directions.

We fasten the tiles

• The uniformity of the gaps between the tiles is achieved using special mounting crosses. In the indicated order, the first horizontal row is laid out.
  Then it is followed by another horizontal row and so on vertically. At the same time, it is important not to rush and lay the plate carefully, carefully measuring each new laid ceramic element with the building level vertically and horizontally with others.

The clearance is adjustable using crosses.

Laying ceramic tiles on the floor

Finishing wall decoration the bathroom with the tiles, you can start laying the tiles on the floor.

Attention: Before starting work, it is advisable to waterproof the floor using a special waterproof mastic or bitumen varnish. After the waterproofing material has completely dried, you can proceed to laying the floor tile on a special adhesive solution.

To achieve a flat surface, you should use the building level. After the installation of the floor slab is finished, you can stick the first row of wall tiles.

Grouting

To make a seam of high quality, proceed as follows:

• After incomplete drying of the adhesive solution, mounting crosses are removed from the seams between the ceramic plate and the trowel angle must be walked along the seam. It is necessary to remove the entire solution. When it is completely dry, this will not work;

We clean the seam

• After this, you can start grouting the seams. For this, depending on the tone of the tile, a special colored grout is used for joints, which, like the adhesive mixture, is sold in specialized building stores.
  In those cases when a tile of complex color structure, you can use a white grout. The grout is applied over the joints with a special spatula made of rubber;
• The solution is applied with a rubber spatula. Then we wait a little for it to dry and wipe off the excess with a damp rag;
• It takes more than three hours to fully dry the grout. After this, excess white plaque must be removed with a damp cloth. On this, the process of tiling the bathroom with a tile can be considered complete.

If the process of carrying out this kind of work is not entirely clear, you can familiarize yourself with it in detail through video and photos. This will help to more clearly illuminate all the subtleties and specifics of this work.
When using large area tiles in the bathroom wall lining, it is necessary to work with it extremely carefully, since the material of the plate is very fragile and, when handled carelessly, often breaks, which is especially true for the large size of the plate.

Attention: It is worth considering the factor that in small rooms it is not advisable to use large tiles, since from an economic point of view it will not be profitable.

Tiled bathroom combination

In order to decorate and diversify the decor of the bathroom, often combined lining with ceramic tiles is often used.
Options for combining tile:

• The use of in addition to the main coating of a ceramic plate inserts for decoration;
• Facing the bathroom with mosaic tiles made of ceramics, stone and glass;

The advantages of this style of decoration:

• A huge number of options;
• The ability to create a unique design;
• Do-it-yourself installation;
• Achievability of creating indoor visualization.

Possible Combination Options

There are many different types of tile combinations, but the main thing is to choose a harmonious combination. A visual increase in the area of ​​the room can be achieved using finishes with a large textured combination in one color.
Some options for combining with visual effects:

• Decorating the walls with a tiled stove in the form of a screen will help to give a feeling of a larger volume of the bathroom;
• One of the common design options that helps to visually highlight the place where the washbasin is located is a mosaic or ceramic apron above it. In this embodiment, the bathroom mirror can be framed, which will give the room a twist;
• Inserts used on the floor, for which a plate of any texture and design is suitable. It is possible to use chess alternation and insertion in the geometric center of an individual figure or fragment, which will look very original;
• An eccentric Christmas tree figure laid out with a plate on the bathroom wall is able to give a constant New Year mood.

Now you know how to tile walls in the bathroom. The main thing here is not to rush and follow the instructions. Everything is not that complicated, the main thing is not to miss anything.