Seamless floor tiles: design features

Finishing the floor is one of the most labor-intensive steps in the repair process. Fortunately, the market for building materials is now a lot of new technologies, among which you can always find the best option for yourself from both aesthetic and practical and economic points of view. So, today is very popular seamless floor tiles, which allows you to create a chic relief surface. From the master requires high qualification to make high-quality stacking of this material. This must be taken into account when purchasing.

Such material is made of expanded polystyrene. The method of its manufacture is called thermal stamping and is considered quite expensive. As a result of this production method, tiles of up to 5 mm in thickness and dimensions of 50x50 cm are produced. Such tiles are sold in packs of 8 pieces each.

Seamless floor tiles can have both small and large pattern, resemble wood carving, plaster moldings. The edges of the plates are clear and even or wavy.It allows you to accurately form a perfectly smooth, uniform surface.

This is a unique material with a whole range of advantages:

• moisture resistance and fire resistance;

• excellent sound and heat insulation performance;
• ability to hide defects and unevenness of the floor;
• the ability to change color with paint;
• practicality, since such a tile is not afraid of the effects of detergents, it is very easy to take care of it;
• large selection of patterns and textures;
• and finally, a wide range of applications. Seamless floor tiles can be used to finish ceilings in private houses, apartments, public buildings, etc.

This coating is mounted quite hard. You need to have a special glue. No more tools you need to have. High-quality installation can only produce a professional in their field. If you do it incorrectly, then the drawing will not converge and the discrepancies will be visible.

Installation of the floor is carried out in stages:

• First, you should open the purchased tile packaging and give the material a couple of days to rest. This way you can remove any residual moisture in it.
• If there was any coating on the floor, remove it and apply a primer on the surface.

• Now it is necessary to find a floor center in the room. It is not difficult to do this - pull the threads diagonally, and mark their intersection with a dot. Crosswise across the found center, draw 2 lines parallel to the walls.
• You can start directly sticking to the floor of the layers. On the back of the material, apply 5-6 drops of glue (in the center and along the edges) and glue the first square, combining its angle and center of the ceiling.
• Next, glue the tiles along the marked line. Try to stick together elements as closely as possible, otherwise it was originally conceived as a seamless floor, on the contrary, it may well come up with seams, besides in the most inappropriate places.
• If you want, fasten the adjacent rows for reliability with a special construction tape, so they will not move apart when the glue dries.

When installing tiles around the perimeter of the room, there may sometimes be some not very nice gaps.To make the finished floor look, you should buy a special plinth. It can be of different widths, textures and appearance. But here its standard length is 2 meters. You can take a variety of decorative corner elements that can significantly facilitate the process of fixing the plinth.

When laying a seamless tile, the same rules apply as for laying a standard tile. For information on what nuances you should pay attention, see the following video.

Today tiles and porcelain tiles manufactured by the concern Porcelanosa received deserved recognition on all continents. They perfectly imitate marble, natural stone, other types of materials. With the help of the seamless Porcelanosa tile, it became possible to create timeless interiors.

Prisma collection - it is a seamless tile of the format s31,6x90m with a relief diamond pattern and a glossy surface, which is available in black and white.

Glass Collection - this is a large-format rectified tile with a size of 31.6x90 cm.The tile has a glossy surface that resembles glass. Due to this effect, the room can be visually increased and give it additional depth and volume. In 2010, the collection was supplemented with decorative panels, which are a set of three tiles.

Tile Porcelanosa Saigon collection It has a slightly grooved surface with a slight shine. The decors of the series are decorated with a relief pattern that is “pressed out” on the surface of the tile. The pattern on the decors is placed in such a way that when the tile is laid a continuous pattern is formed.

Qatar collection decorated with embossed waves, which when laying go from one tile to another, that is, a continuous pattern is formed. Addition to this series is Seul collection - smooth background tiles of the same color and surface texture.

Interesting is also a series of tiles Firenzewhose size is 20x31.6 cm. It does not have a smooth edge and as if laid, it is as if embedded in one. The ground tile acquires a mosaic effect and, in combination with a series of large-format tiles, allows you to create modern innovative interior solutions.

Zar decorative tiles - this is also the 2010 novelty of the Porcelanosa factory. Light relief drawing of feathers depicted on this panel will be an elegant and elegant decoration for any interior.

Kali tile perfectly imitates polished marble. It also has a size of 31.6 x 90 cm and is rectified. Therefore, it can be with a minimum seam, allows you to visually perceive the surface lined by it as a single solid marble slab. The collection has three colors that combine with each other and a large assortment of friezes and borders, with which you can realize both classic and modern design options.

Grunge concrete - collection, hyper-realistic imitating destroyed urban concrete: scratches, cracks, splits. One simple tile is a whole piece of art.

Arizona Concrete - the surface of the tile of this collection is similar to carpentry boards and to a mystical stone, expressive shadows on smooth or rough cement can be seen.

Fence - a tile with the image of a metal grid. Color range: white on white, gray on gray, black on black, black on white. Available in size 20 * 20.

Ribbed reflects a creative semi-antique flooring. It gives the impression that it hit a suburban subway with painted windows.

Ribbed Oxide reproduces an oxidized corrugated sheet of metal, has many shades, such as shiny rusty metal.

Shades of blinds - the tile with effect of a satin surface, has dark and shining shades. Incredibly comfortable tile size, which is suitable for creative design 10 * 30.

Industrial glass - The main thesis of the collection, the architecture of old abandoned buildings. The design of the collection is designed in such a way that each individual element, framed by a frame under rusty metal, creates panels in the form of glass industrial blocks.

Solid Concrete Collection - this is a hyper-realistic imitation of monolithic concrete, in which the texture with microcracks and a worn surface is perfectly accurately conveyed.This is the personification of the spirit of the metropolis in a constant rhythm and dynamics.