Ways to Prevent Tiles from Falling off

Ways to Prevent Tiles from Falling off

It is easy to fall off for the tiles after finishing paving. How to solve this kind of problem? You can pave the tiles by yourself if you learn the DIY.

Clean the base course before tiling

If there are decorating items such as lime putty, emulsion varnish or wallpaper on the wall or dirt on the floor, you should clean them away before tiling. Otherwise, the cement mortar will not stick firmly with the base course. Besides, if there are crack on the floor or wall, you should fix it first to avoid the crack expanding. If you do not pay attention to it, it may lead to crack or fall off for the tiles.

For the floor or wall with too much difference in flatness or verticality, you should make it flat by the cement mortar. What is more, you have to compare the color difference before tiling.

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The wall tile should be fully immersed

As the wall tiles have high moister content, you have to think about this character when you tile the wall tile. Before tiling, the base course should be fully watered so that it can keep wet. Or, the moister from the cement mortar will be quickly absorbed by the dry base course and tiles and the cement mortar will agglomerate in a very short time. it will affect the stick firmness ability.

Pave the floor flat before the tiling

Put the tiles which do not add the cement on the floor and make it flat. Then put the cement mortar to the tiles and make sure that the positions of the opposite angles of the four tiles are in flush. What is more, there is something to learn for the sequence. First, you should tile from the inside to the outside. If there are tilt or floor drain, you should look for the tilt from the direction of drainage. The tiles should do it from the bottom up. For the sake of beauty, you had better tile the bottom one at last. After finish tiling, you should press the tiles. Besides, you should not tile one side of the wall for one time, for it may lead to fall off because of the heavy weight. Do not step on the floor tiles for the short time finishing tiling.

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Try to steep the tiles in the water

In summer, the materials are much dryer than normal seasons. Therefore, as to the materials which need to steep into water, they need to postpone the steep time to make sure that they contain enough moister. In this way, it will not absorb moister from the cement mortar when tiling.  Therefore this step can help you save a lot of troubles such as falling off, hollow.

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