Grouting seams after laying tiles. Ceramic tile stamps. When you can start cleaning

If it is possible - then on the second day. Especially if you need to fill the seams at the tile on the floor. What reasons are such a hurry?

1. If you leave on the floor of the seams are empty, then the simple walking on the tile by the end of the day will lead to the filling of the seams of sand and dust. And if you do any work related to glue or putty, then half a day you are provided with work. Unlumped seams are clogged with various garbage. The foam is especially dangerous. Light balls are hardening with difficulty, and when filling the grout, float to the surface.

2. When grilled on the second place of laying, the tile glue has not yet frozen enough. Missed pollution can be easily corrected.

3. Glue and tile on the second day are still quite wet. The applied grout firmly grabbing with tiles. Wetting of seams and tiles before filling the seams is not a good solution. When filling out such seams, the grout is diluted with water, becomes liquid, which in itself is unacceptable by technology. Therefore, careful cleaning of the tile with plenty of water, on the day of laying, the optimal option for creating clean seams.

Consumption of Zatirki

Ripping consumption depends on such factors:
- widths of the seam (sized of crosses used)
- the size of the tile itself (the greater the size of the tile, the less the seams are formed in the square)
- Picture on the tile. So if there is a relief or depressed pattern on the tile, assemble the remnants of the grout from such a surface.

Therefore, manufacturers also do not give a specific figure, but indicate the upper and lower amount of the flow. These figures sometimes differ in 2 - 3 times. For basic flow, you can take 400 g. Per square meter of tiles. This value is true for smooth tiles size of 300x3000 and the width of the seam 3 mm. For mosaic with smooth 2mm width seams, this value is two times more.

If there are doubts how much the grout is needed, it is better to test. Consider one bundle pack (2 kg.) To fill the seams. Measure the resulting area. Split weight (2kg) to the area, you will learn the flow rate of one square. Then you need to calculate the remaining, unfilled area, and multiply it to the resulting consumption on 1m square.

Technology Zatirov

The bulk of the rapid mass is divorced with water. There are two-component - for an aggressive environment, etc. Exotic, but they are rarely applied in the necessary. Cold mixes that are bred by water are also widely varying with their properties.

There are fast-hardening mixtures with which it is necessary to work for 15-20 minutes. There are such that they do not frozen within a few hours. In the mixtures of such manufacturers as Kiwto, CESTO, together with the grout, in the package there is a special rubber spatula, similar to a piece of cable. They are recommended to complete the formation of the seam.

If the tile is laid correctly and the edges of it are smooth - then you can apply a round spatula. But if the edge of the tile is sharp or the glaze on the edge is uneven - then the grout with such a spatula will only spoil the whole look, because The seams will be deep and the sharp edge of the tile will be visible. In this case, it is necessary to burn with a sponge.

By strength, the lured seams also differ greatly. Grouting "Ceresit", after drying, you can easily clean with a knife with a removable blade. Mapey's grouting can be cleaned only with the help of a turbine.

Differently inducing water. Without calculating the amount of water, you can pour the entire package of a dry mixture, but the rapid mass remains liquid. Therefore, the first knees of the unknown mixture must be prepared in small portions. Do all the process with this mixture, get a picture, then start filling the seams on the entire plane.

The mixture must be mixed twice as the glue, with a five-minute break. Apply the grout is necessary by a plastic spatula with rubber (and better with rubber) coating. To do this, you must purchase a dear tool of the branded manufacturer. You will feel the difference immediately as soon as you take in your hands. He will serve you longer than two cheap.

The grouting mixture must be treated under the tile so that it fill out all emptiness there. If, when applying glue, you work with a toothed spatula with a cut-out tooth, the grout will be formed in the seam with the extension to the bottom. This will give a reliable fastening that will prevent the seam falling over time.

The mixture must be applied to an area of \u200b\u200bapproximately 0.5 square. Then, the movement of the spatula on the diagonal of the tiles, collect residues and fill the seams at the same time. This is necessary in order for the first stage to achieve the most complete filling, at the level with the surface of the tile.

The next step is embarking after a small pouring of the mixture. The surface of the tiles, while it becomes light, from the dried grout, but the seam itself remains dark and raw. If the grout in this state to touch your finger, it will not be wing. The finger remains dry.

In this state, the grout can be launched. If you start earlier - the seams will be deep. Some tiles enamel is high and does not go to the end. In this case, a dark tile end will be visible on a light grout background. It is less noticeable if the grout of the brown, like the end, colors. Why is it best to wash the grip by a special grater, with a rubber coating (coarse-grained urine):
- a flat surface of the grater, with a smooth slide, does not wash the mixture from the seam; It only collects from the surface of the tile, a clutter mass;
- large pores of the washcloths are collected quickly and many;
- Comfortable handle allow this process to spend very quickly.

This is important when working in the heat, with fast-hardening mixtures. In such cases, when the grouting is made on the tile, it is necessary to start flushing the mixture with a washcloth. When all the grout is washed, it is possible to continue the filling of the seams if the rapid mixture will not be captured by this time. When blurring with a washcloth, the hardening process, as it should be slowed down, and occurs time for further formation of the seam using a round spatula (tube) or foam rubber.

Foam and water, in this case, grind the seam, no longer waste, as the grout grabbed by this time, stronger. The more often squeeze and rinse the foam rubber in the water, the cleaner will be the tile and the less effort will be able to spend at the next stage.

For greater convenience and accelerate these works, there are special containers under water, with two rollers on top. Using this device, the tiler does not wet the hands while the grinding of the gripping and cleaning the tiles from the glue. But it is again a new one, an additional tool that you need to buy, wear, pack.

As an option is tested a similar way, but without purchasing an excess tool. Conducting a washcloth, by dried out, we remove the grout layer from the surface of the tile. Pores, while clogged and the process of grouting stops. It is necessary to press the washcloth. It is best that it turns out with a hand or wiring on rollers installed above the container. Or you can simplify everything. Ordinary bucket will replace the container. In order not to wet your hand once again, the washcloth is pressed with a rubber roller, an indulgeted grater into the water.

How much does grout dry?

The grouting process proceeds under normal conditions for an hour. Normal conditions are a temperature of 15-25 degrees and the usual moisture content of the residential premises. When the temperature is reduced to 2-7 degrees and high humidity, this process is delayed.

When filling the seams on the floor, the grout is frozen in an hour, but it is possible to walk on it only after 2-3 hours. Sand, when walking, violates the evenness, not yet a faster seam.

The more often the water is changed, when the grout is washed, the smaller the flare on the tile is formed. But the finally white plaque is difficult to remove water. This is possible if there is a running water from the hose. But it is not always possible to practically implement it.

There is another way. After complete drying of the seam (usually on the second day), the tile must be wiped with a dry cloth, or better felt. On the corrugated tile, it is difficult to remove the finally. In such cases, special cleaners help.

How to pick up the color of the grout?

The color of grouts, usually pick up the tile color. This is true according to the rules of design. In any room there must be a maximum of 3-4 colors. For a more accurate color selection, it is necessary to apply the tile to the sample of the colors or pour dry grouts to the tile. Perhaps a small deviation on the tone, but not in color.

White grout on the floor in a few days becomes dirty gray. Therefore, for white tiles, it is better to immediately take the brightest shade of gray. Such a kel is not all over all the rates.

After the tile in the bathroom in the kitchen or elsewhere is laid, one of the responsible moments of this repair comes - putting the seams of ceramic tiles. The correct grout and sealing of the seams between the tiles will help disguise defects that could form when laying, and will lead the appearance to the final finished form. Before you begin to thull work, you need it's good to check whether the glue or mortarTo which tile laying was carried out. It is necessary to clean all the seams from the garbage and dirt, as well as pull out the dividing crosses that align the tile. Then you start the grout itself. If a tile is used with the surface of the glazed type, then it is possible to start the grout at once, since such a surface does not absorb moisture and does not give water too fast to dry, which may adversely affect the quality of work. With other types of tiles, the wizard uses struts, but here you should also be careful and not overdo it, as the formation of puddles or excess moisture can affect the grout and contribute to its cracking. What rules the appearance and will have to rub these places in a new way.

Types of thicker materials

Total means are divided into two main types - these are substances based on cement and epoxy resin respectively. In the first case, the powder mixture is diluted with a certain amount of water and the starting material is obtained, sometimes liquid latex is used. There are ready solutions on a cement basis, which are more expensive due to their finished state. That is, if you want to save, take dry rapid material and dilute with water, this process will not require special efforts. Cement grout is made with the use of Portland cement, which is the highest quality and is based on 70-80% calcium seccate. In the second case, where epoxy resin is used, the grout has a number of positive properties that protect the joints from the penetration of chemicals and make them shockproof. This type of grouts use more often in commercial or industrial premises. At the same time, it should be aware that the epoxy grout has a viscous consistency and is quite difficult to implement the work itself with it. In narrow seams that less than 6 millimeters penetration of this grout will be ineffective.

Implementation of work with grout of seams of ceramic tile

First stage: Application of grout

The grout process though simple, but has some nuances that should be taken into account for a more efficient final result. A special grater is used to apply a casual substance that is purchased in any construction supermarket. Depending on the work on the floor or on the walls, different configurations or universal tools are applied. When working with the floor, you can simply pour a part of the solution from the tank or cry out in small portions, as more convenient, and also depends on the person's experience, which carries out the grout. When working with the walls on the grater impose a grout and at an angle of 30 degrees rubbed into the surface of the wall to which the tile is laid. The grout is required diagonally. In order to achieve the best effect, you need to walk along the surface two or three times and at the same time try to give a possible force for careful filling and sealing to the maximum of a casual substance in all seams. As a result, a solidified substance should be obtained instead of a liquid initial state.

You should not exercise grout over the entire surface of the wall or floor, but it is better to start with one or two square meters. This is required for understanding, what time is required to dry out the grout and determining the optimal tempo and mode of operation. If the tile has a special texture that is difficult to clean, such as decorative brick, then you can use a special "bag"similar to the one that confirers use to create patterns on their products. It can be done with your own hands by circumcalling the tip from the appropriate package or the cellpophane strong bag. Carefully squeezing in the seam of a plugger substance, press it with an extender or a special rod, the diameter of which should be slightly larger than the width of the seam. After that, you need to give a grout to dry through one or two hours and remove excess with a special brush. After the implementation of the above works, we proceed to the next stage of cloud work with ceramic tiles.

Second Stage: Delete Grout

The grout cleaning process is divided into two stages, the first of which is dry And it is to remove the extra residues of the grout, which remained on the seams of ceramic tiles. To remove excess, you will need a special brush, which is kept at a right angle so that the seams are smooth and not damaged. If it is irreversible, the deformation of the core material may occur and will have to be reused to fill the seam location where it happened. During cleaning the wall or floor section, where work is performed, do not forget about the remaining areas and stir the solution to save it in working condition. The next stage is wet cleaningwhich has not yet cooled grout, since heavily hardened will be cleared with great effort and will require more time accordingly. For a start, take a wet sponge and moist in water well, and then check the small plot, so to speak on the sample to make sure that the grout must be sufficiently hardening, which should remain in the seams and not to be removed from the first touch of the sponge.

After cleaning the wall, check each seam on a good appearance to be smoothly and neat. If there are traces of a cloud substance that is not removed by simple water, you can use a special solvent, which is easy to cope with this task.

Application sealant

After all the seams finally harder, they need a couple of days, socket sealing should be made. This will require itself a sealant and tool for covering the surface. If you decide to complete tile sealing, then a roller is needed for faster work, and if only the seams, then a brush will be required. When sealing some seams, the remnants of sealant from the tile should be carefully removed. This procedure is repeated approximately every two years. It also depends on the manufacturer of the sealant and its features. This is written in the instructions on the packaging, which should be accurately observed.

In this article, you will learn how to competently complete the execution of facing work, which must be done for accurate design of intercutric gaps.

Final chord cladding tiles

Those times have long passed when the cement mortar was used when laying the tiles and they performed the grout. Today, the market has a huge range of modern materials for seams.

When it is necessary to rub the wall, lined with tiles

After the end of laying the seams are filled with special compositions. The purpose of this procedure is to protect the basis from the penetration of moisture and give the aesthetic type of the finished surface.

When you can fill the seams after laying the tile on the wall

Usually they are rubbed every other day after cladding. When complying with the technology of laying this time, it is enough for glue to dry. It is not necessary to speed up the process of filling the seams, otherwise the moisture remains at the base, and the finishing material can overcome over time.

If the quality of the tile leaves much to be desired - it is preferable to use the grout of the same tone so that they merge.

How to tick the tile on the wall in the bathroom: stages of work

The process of filling seams is differently called a fugue. Consider more of its stages:

1. Preparation for Fougal. First remove the remaining installation elements (crosses, wedges). Then clean the seams from the remnants of the adhesive mixture and take the garbage to the brush. Due to this, the filling process becomes easier and the likelihood of black manifestation is excluded when using the grout of light tones.

1. Selection and preparation of a clutter composition. This is a simple, but responsible stage. The seam grout material is a plastic mass ready for use or a dry mixture-semi-finished product requiring preparation. The choice of composition is caused by many factors, including the type of tile for finishing. To prepare a dry mixture to work, it takes its dimensional part, add water and thoroughly mixed with a trunk with a wedge. After that, a homogeneous mass retracts for 5-10 minutes to activate its components and shook once again.

1. Filling seams.A soft rubber spatula is used to perform work. First, they make movements perpendicular to the seam, pressing the grout composition for the entire depth. Then the spatula is carried out along the edge of the tile, subordinating superfluous. Due to the rapid setting of the composition, you should not handle more than 1-1.5 m2 of cladding.

1. The formation of neat seams.At the stage of grouts, when they are still wet, they attached a finished look. For this purpose, a piece of a television cable is used, which serves as a bunch. It turns out a neat radius seam, and each tile is highlighted on a general background.

1. Deleting material residues.After performing work on the surface of the facing, traces of the grout mass remain. So that they do not dry, they are pre-wiped with a wet sponge.

1. Finishing ending. At the end of work, the entire tile is wiped with a dry cloth. Thus, the components of the grout are completely removed. In a day, the surface is treated with special plumbing agents.

How to make the grout of the chops of dark tiles on the wall

As a rule, dark tones are used when cladding the floor or bottom of the walls. In this case, when filling the seams, it does not apply the grout of light colors for two reasons:

1. first, in these places they are dirty;
2. secondly, the dark end of the tile is visible, which visually increases the seam size.

Ideally, the grout is selected only after laying the tiles.

How to fill the seams of light tiles

The grout process for this material does not differ in principle from the usual procedure. To distinguish each cladding element, the compositions are used, which are slightly darker or brighter the main background. You should be careful with a sharp contrast of colors of tiles and grouts. In this case, the seams may emphasize the defects of the material.

Features of work

For grouting tiles, several types of mixtures differ in the structure and content of components are used. This predetermines the features of their use. With a fugue on a cement basis, it is easy to work and "lifetime" it is 30-40 minutes. This is enough to correct small defects.

In order for the color of the seams of the cement fugue to be the same, it is necessary to strictly observe the ratio of components.

Epoxy grout - material requiring a short period of work. This is due to the fact that it is rapidly collapsing and hardened for half an hour. Therefore, with epoxy grout, high qualifications tires are working, having good professional skills. Restrictions on its use - the width of the seam from 5 to 12 mm at a maximum depth of 10 mm.

The most modern fugue is a silicone grout. It is usually used in the average range of the width of intercutric gaps (2-7 mm). For application, a special gun is used, allowing you to form a neat solid seam.

How long grabs grout

The time of complete drying of the Fuga, as well as the features of performance, depends on their components.

For conventional cement-based compounds, this period is 7 days, with acrylic additives - 10-14 days, and for epoxy and silicone - 15-20 days. After drying, various means of household chemicals can be used for tile processing.

Using a wide palette of colors of grout formulations, you can easily change the overall impression from the finish surface. The use of a particular material is dictated by the conditions of cladding and laid in a schedule for repairs.

Useful video

When all the seams are filled between tiles, you need to clean the tile from excess material. We tell how to do it.

Required tools and materials:

• respirator (for working with grouts containing cement)
• rubber gloves, goggles
• scraper with rubber nozzle (raw grater)
• bucket with water
• sponge (better take a sponge with rounded edges)
• fishing or old Toothbrush
• clean fabric
• sealant
• tassel for drawing

Process:

The first removal of surplus grouts is "dry". Holding a grater at almost a direct angle to the surface of the tiles, move it diagonally relative to the seams. If the edge of the grater fell into the seam and removed from it a part of the grouts, add a little grout in the seam and align the surface.

We give the grout in the seams to grab. You can evaluate the readiness with the help of a sponge: I wonder it as stronger and test a small plot. If the sponge stretches from the seams, it means it grabbed not enough. Wait a few minutes and check again. Wet cleaning can be started when the grout in the seam remains in place. But it should not be solid - otherwise you can damage the seams when cleaning.

Wet cleaning is carried out using a strongly pressed sponge with soft circular wider movements. Carefully so that the grooves are not formed in the thicker seams. Press only a small area (1-2 sq. M. m), often washing and thoroughly pressing the sponge. If necessary (if the facing is greater than 9 square meters. M) change water to clean.

We will examine the thicker seams - where they turned out not to be neat enough, align them and smooth out the extension or end of a toothbrush. Then hanging the edges of the seams with a sponge, moving it parallel to the seam. The protrusions are carefully removed, and the excavations fill in a small amount of grouts at the tip of the finger (wear tightly tight rubber gloves for this). Ideally, all seams should have the same shape and depth, be even on top, not convex.

As soon as the seams are aligned, the surface of the tiles is thoroughly cleaned. We rinse, well press the sponge and make one side of it straight, the vertical passage is about a meter, very slowly without stopping by moving the sponge towards yourself. (If you move quickly or intermittently, the staps from the tiles will remain on the surface of the tiles). After the first pass, we turn the sponge with the pure side and make the passage parallel to the first, and then rinse the sponge. For one pass, use the sponge side just washed. Continue until the entire clad area is completely cleaned. If the sponge pulls the grout from the seams, it means that the grouts too much and the seams should be fired, or too much water in a sponge.

Give the seams the opportunity to dry out for 15 minutes (during this time there are spreads on the tiles again) and wipe the tiles with a soft, clean cloth. If the tiles have a matte surface or rounded angles, you may need another, additional passage with fresh water and sponge.

If the residues of the grouts are poorly cleaning, you have not clearly clean the surface for the first time or the glue remained on the surface of the tile, and the grout grabbed more than usual. Try to remove the residues with a wet abrasive grater or use acid cleaners. But keep in mind that before their use of grouting in the seams should completely capture.

A few days later, when the grout finally hardens, the seams can be covered with sealant. Take advantage of this small tassel. All excess sealants, which may accidentally get on the surface of the tile, immediately delete.

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Conducting repairs in the bathroom or in the kitchen, everyone faces the need to lay tile. However, it is easy to put it well enough - it is necessary to sweep the seams so that there are no cracks between the walls or the floor elements. How to do it right, we will tell us in our article.

Qualitative between tiles will help hide some lack of laying. This is especially important if you are not a professional builder. Conversely - if the grout is bad, it will spoil even the perfectly smooth wall or floor.

After how much to rub the stitches on the tile?

So that your home brings only joy, you need to remember several rules. Many are interested - how much to rub the stitches on the tile. This question is the first thing that you need to know the one who faces such a procedure. It is necessary to produce tile seams with your own hands only after the glue to which it is planted, will dry out completely. This will require a minimum of 24 hours.

Step-by-step instruction

Clean the seams from the construction trash, small pebbles, cement and special dividers (so-called cross). Some argue that these little things can be left in the lumens between the tiles and even cover them with grout, but the wizards do not advise it to do. The color of the seams may turn out to be inhomogeneous.

If you put the glazed tile, then it can be pushed without prior preparation. But if the tile is not so, then its edges must be moistened, then it will not absorb water from the grout. An ordinary garden sprayer is useful for this purpose. But it is not necessary to get carried away, because the surplus of water can entail the cracking of the grout. In any case, consult with the seller who purchases the mixture - find out how to rub the stitches on the tile by this means and how to prepare the surface before applying it.

Close attention should be paid to the color of the grout. The classic is considered white, however, it is very impractical. A few years later, this grout pleases such a grout. No detergents and cleaning products will help restore its appearance. But the darker grout for the walls and the floor will look much better even after a dozen years. Remember - than rich the shade of the grout, the longer it will serve.

Preparing for the grout, basten the most necessary: \u200b\u200ba special grater, a bucket with a sponge, a respirator (or marlevant) and gloves. Put the diluted grout mixture to the surface and the grater start processing the surface.

Keep the tool at a small angle - so the mixture will be better distributed. Try not just to "go" on the surface - rub the grip in the slot so that all empties are completely filled. Detailed video on how to properly rub the seams between the tiles you will find in our article.

You can work and a bag for grouting. It works almost as a confectionery syringe, alive with a solution only free space around the tiles. Its use greatly facilitates the subsequent cleaning of the wall or floor covering from the residues of the grout.