To execute decorative facing with use of tile, various supplementing elements can be applied. For example, friezes, corners, borders and so on are often applied.
Among materials for finishing such products are provided in huge assortment. They help to make repairs qualitatively and very quickly.
Installation of decorative elements helps to hide defects and roughnesses of edges of tiles. The composition after such addition takes more attractive, finished form. External corners are most widespread among such parts.
Why apply corners
The esthetic external corner for tile is often used as design element. With its application make out interior of bathrooms, corridors when facing by tile, kitchen rooms. Corners help to disguise ugly edges, provide protection of material against humidity and fungus, emergence of mold.
Sometimes mounting of such corners can be referred to necessary actions. For example, during creation of apron or in process to facing of steps, such elements are especially useful to use on speakers corners in the bathroom where they podskalzyvatsya quite often on wet floor. It is better to put in the right places corners from plastic, than to leave sharp edges of the filed tile.
Attentively selecting the sizes and types of elements, it is possible to create unique and very attractive design, to reduce the probability of emergence of problems which can happen when laying tiles.
What types of corners happen
Angle units exist various – they can differ in the size, the production material, colors and texture, options provided for fastening.
On design the elements are subdivided as follows:
For production of soft corners are used polyvinylchloride for basis and silicone for edges. Their application is rather convenient, they well look in combination with tiles which have smooth and relief surface. Semifixed elements have quite good flexibility, are issued in extensive color gamma. For production of rigid corners aluminum is used. Their color can be natural gray, also other options of coloring are applied.
Using corners of any type, it is possible to facilitate process of laying of tile and to provide to ceramic surface nice and beautiful exterior.
Plastic corner
Elements from plastic are applied to fixing of tile, perform the decorating function and serve as the insulator. The product can be used for curvilinear or direct connection. The plastic external element is made sloping, can be rounded that improves its decorative properties. The main advantages of products – usability, practicality, the quite good choice of flowers.
Aluminum corner
Such finishing part differs in bigger rigidity. As it bends reluctantly, sites will be suitable for its application not all. To establish such elements, corners on their way have to correspond to 90 degrees. When laying ceramic covering at once carry out also mounting of corners.
Aluminum elements in form can be flat or rounded off. That the ceramic covering has turned out graceful by sight, accurate, it is necessary to choose attentively model of product and color registration. Corners from aluminum easy and very strong, differ in high resistance to corrosion.
Decorative corner
The external decorative element can be made of various materials, it differs and in texture. They are made out under gold, leather, imitate stone and glass. Products of such look are applied to hide noticeable defects of surface, or for the purpose of allocation of any features.
How to choose external corners
Choosing corners for upclassing of covering from tile, it is necessary to consider technical characteristics of elements, configuration and quality. They have to coincide surely with covering material on color and the size that registration has turned out beautiful. When selecting materials it is necessary to trace that the tile densely, but without effort would come into corner, would not dangle inside.
From that, material will be how truly picked up, both the quality of laying, and external impression of interior depends.
As mounting of corners is carried out
Laying of tiled covering with addition of corners has to be carried out in compliance of technology – then the covering turns out accurate and attractive. Corners are mounted directly during laying of covering from tiles, at the same time additional fastenings by it it will not be required. For fixing glue solution is used.
To execute external registration of surface from tile, difficult actions are not required. Step by step process looks as follows:
- The corner for preparation for mounting is measured, cut off before obtaining necessary length, then put to corner of the decorated surface.
- The tile is inserted into groove of apportion. It have together with corner so that to provide opportunity for the correct connection of the following piece of tile. Tags are carried out.
- The wall surface is covered with glue solution. To edge of corner where the tag is made, it is necessary to put corner and to press down, to apply adhesive substance on tile.
- To insert tile into groove of corner, then together with apportion to press down to surface.
- Tiled glue is applied on the following tiled element, then it is pressed to surface and leveled together with the first tile on level. Using construction knife, it is necessary to execute cleaning of groove where the tile connects to plastic corner. To clean surface of tile, having wiped with clean rags.
- By means of painting adhesive tape from paper it is necessary to pull together more densely both connected element. It will be possible to remove adhesive tape in a day.
Carrying out repair of corners
The tiled corner can be required to dismantle in cases when the apportion has ceased to be pleasant, the kitchen or bathtub is subject to repair, the site of surface has been damaged. For carrying out repair the corners will be required to be removed. This work as follows is performed:
- It is necessary to cut off external corner, trying not to damage at the same time tile.
- Then the new corner is preparing.
- Back part of element is cut.
- If necessary the space for profile is leveled, at the same time the space under tile should not be touched.
- The apportion is pasted with use of silicone or liquid nails.
Internal corner
Unlike the external decorating elements, internal are not especially widespread. For obtaining appeal of registration of external corners it is necessary to carry out undercutting of tile or to carry out dressing by profiles. Undercutting is recognized as less convenient option therefore establish external decorative corners more often. Without internal the interior does not suffer at all, but sometimes and such elements find it necessary to use.
On design internal angle units it is a little more difficult. They consist of groove, concave external part and edge with perforation.
At installation of internal corners under tiled surface itself can facilitate task, having cut off back part from elements and gluing them by means of silicone adhesive. So installation process is considerably facilitated.
When mounting corners of two types before executing final finish of seams, it is necessary to clean carefully from adhesive substance joints between tile and profiles. When using plastic elements it is necessary to work more accurately not to cut off layer and not to leave scratches.