Beautifully issued house porch in many respects helps to make positive impression about owners, if the porch looks not well-groomed, it is hardly possible to expect that indoors you are waited by cozy and comfortable situation. For this reason it is very important to make entrance to the house beautiful and accurate. The tile for finishing of ceremonial group can help with it.
How to choose tile
The tile for porch has to be wearproof and safe. Steps need to be executed so that resistance to the hardest loadings has been provided. The tile by all means has to differ in immunity to action of hostile environment, fungi, different wreckers. The porch which is in the open air is subject to negative impact of external factors.
To ensure safety, the tile needs to be stacked, using construction glue for nonslipping surface. In most cases for finishing of porch use porcelain tile or clinker.
Preference is most often given to brick tile because quality porcelain tile for external works costs much, and it is possible to use it not in each climate. Clinker for porch is ideal option because he is capable to sustain repeated freezing and defrosting. Besides, the brick tile has high coefficient of resistance to sliding. As for the surface of this facing material, it is characterized by wear resistance. Clinker is very unpretentious in leaving, it is easy to wash it with normal means of household chemicals. If you revet the porch with such practical material, then it will look very beautifully and effectively.
Finishing of porch tile
The most difficult for finishing it is possible to call terrace and steps. If it is wrong to perform finishing work in these parts, then after a while the basis will begin to be deformed. Mounting should be made taking into account some nuances. As for steps, they have to be monolithic, at the same time it is necessary to mount them on the basis which is required to be condensed in advance. Choosing concrete for the basis, it is necessary to give preference to brands with coefficient not lower than A M 200. It is necessary to take care also of protection of designs against effect of ground waters. For this purpose you should make surface waterproofing. Seams between tile should be jammed in the most thorough way. The laying has to happen only to use of special glue. The covering tile is necessary not only to reach decorative effect, but also to save design from destruction. Clinker has to be installed only on in advance prepared surface. If durability of concrete is insufficient, then it is necessary to strengthen it, using special grid for these purposes. Priming of surface is also included into the list of obligatory works. It is possible to start facing of porch only after primer completely is fixed on the basis of.