How to lay PVC tiles

PVC tile is a universal coating that attracts buyers with their numerous advantages and a wide variety of design solutions. It is used in the bathroom and in the kitchen, in non-residential premises, such as garages and basements, and can also perform temporary flooring capable of maintaining the main floor when carrying out some time work. Consider a detailed process of its laying.

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Features of PVC Tile

Material is multi-layered. For the manufacture of the lower and middle layers, substances are used in which polyvinyl chloride includes, which gives the tile of hardness and plasticity at the same time and makes the floor warm. The base is performed from fiberglass. To achieve a better clutch during installation, the surface is made rough. The variety of drawings is provided by color PVC, which is used for the middle layer. The upper layer is a transparent protective material.

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Advantages of PVC tiles

The material has many advantages that are as follows:

1. Possible installation of tiles in the rooms where high humidity is observed. It is not afraid of moisture, blinking and deformation appear on the surface. Thanks to this property, the tile is profitably highlighted against the background of the laminate and parquet us usual. In addition, the material will even impede the development of fungus!
2. Tile materials made of polyvinyl chloride are durable and solid, characterized by high resistance to shocks, fire exposure.
3. Material - Durable, since its top layer is able to withstand 10 million steps, without losing quality. The UV layer protects against bleaching.
4. PVC tile floor is an excellent heat and soundproofing coating.
5. The tile has good elasticity, so it can be successfully put on a curvilinear surface and in the most hard-to-reach places.
6. If some section of the floor was damaged, then it is not necessary to transfer all the coating. It is enough just to replace the tile that has become dissent.
7. Accurate geometry of the tile allows not to use moldings and plinth after laying the material.
8. After installing the floor, free access to communications is saved.

Due to the wide range of PVC tiles, any outdoor composition can be recreated by combining the material of various colors and the textures that the great set is under a tree, under the stone. And it is also possible to cut it into small figures and fold the original panel, lay out pieces chaotically, in a checkerboard, make figures, say, on the principle of a children's game, called Tetris.

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Preparatory work

In front of any installation work, the base should be carefully prepared, while putting PVC tiles can be on the old flooring:

• Remove the paint, fat, dirt and dust from the surface, putting it. For cleaning, non-acid substances and solvents are not suitable.
• Seeing the tile by placing it in a dry room for a day, where the temperature is 24 ° C.
• On the wooden floor should not perform nails, the special composition is used to align it.
• The tile floor must be aligned by the level of tiles. If there are large surface drops, you will have to cover the entire base to the leveling layer, passing it away.
• Cracks and potholes formed on the concrete floor are filled with self-leveling mixture.

Consider that with tile flooring, humidity should not be greater than 2.5%.

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Installation of PVC tile

After preparation, we proceed to the installation of the material:

1. Prepare tools such as a roulette, a knife, a carbon, also need a spatula, rubber roller and a sponge.
2. In the axes, install the reference tiles, protruding the "lighthouse", which will be styled by the remaining tiles. As a rule, the axial line is chosen by parallel walls, but other room parameters can also be taken into account.
3. Choose choose respectful. It is applied to the tile and base using a toothed spatula. Apply evenly, do not skip the plots and do not leave the glue bunch!
4. At the next stage, the tile is accurately located along the axis, tightly pressed to the floor, as if writing. Do not allow gaps or displacements!
5. After laying the material, the surface must be rolled with a rubber roller, as well as remove excess glue, which performed in the process using a wet sponge or a solution of alcohol-denaturate.
6. After half an hour, re-rolling the surface.
7. When laying PVC tiles on the curve surface, it is recommended to use a household hairdryer so that the material acquires a large plasticity.
8. Check the floor, examining the rus and the corners so that they are qualitatively glued.

There is an outdoor self-adhesive PVC tile, which is stacked much easier, since it does not require the use of adhesive composition, and simply spacing the protective film.

After the installation, remove the construction garbage and sweep the floor. Wash the surface is resolved after a day, and installing furniture - in two days, not forgetting about the felt pads on the legs. Now the coating is fully prepared for use!