10 pits of tile seams, ordinary people will experience a complete decoration

The decoration of my home, the most dissatisfied is the beauty of the sewing.

I followed the trend to make tile seams, but the effect made me indescribable! I even wonder if the merchant has even the slightest focus on quality, or is it just staring at my wallet?

#01."Sew by yourself".

Since I don't know much about beauty sewing, I searched for beauty sewing products in ** beforehand. I found that almost every merchant who sells beauty sewing agents will say:It is more cost-effective to sew by yourself, and the construction is simple and easy to operate

And I clearly remember that I once asked the store's customer service if I could help find workers for construction. The reply from the customer service to me was: Yes, but it will cost 50 yuan per meter - after all, my family's labor fee will be nearly 10,000 yuan.

Of course, now I know the so-called "**all**", and I also understand why the beauty sewing agent store encourages itself to sew:

Just look at the buyer's evaluation, and you can see that your own beauty sewing is more waste of beauty sewing agent. Originally, 5 sets of sewing agents were enough, but you may need 10 sets to do it yourself. The person who sells the sewing agent wants you to sew it yourself.

In fact, the construction of beautiful seams is not as simple as imagined, and there is a certain technical content. I did a little bit of sewing by myself, and I felt that the difficulty was about the same as brushing latex paint:I can do it myself, but it's easy to do it badly

#02.Mess**

The merchants who sell ceramic tile seams are chaotic, but the offline contractors are not very transparent.

My house is a hardcover house, so it is directly according to the household**.

At the beginning, I went to the building materials market to find a sewing store, and gave me ** 2500 yuan. Later, after waiting for a few days, I met the merchants who pushed in the community, because it was the centralized decoration stage of the new community, so the price was cheaper, reported at 1500 yuan.

So my takeaway: don't look for workers online. **It's cheaper than looking for a store by yourself - you can find beauty in the newly built local community**, and you can also enjoy **price if you are not in their community.

The new community was built for about 3 months, which is the lowest price.

#03.Beautiful sewing color

The living room in front of me is my home, and some people may be ready to scold me: this beautiful seam color is really ugly!

This is also my biggest impression of the color of beautiful sewing: people on the line generally trust white, and people on the line generally trust gold and silver.

I shared my beautiful sewing once and got 400+ comments saying that it was ugly.

But there was no way, netizens said that white was good, so I chose white in the bathroom and kitchen. When choosing colors, they advised me to choose gold and silver, so I used gold in the living room.

After this choice, I was cured of my problem of being a good teacher. Because I've learned that there are some things that don't have the right answer:No matter what the color, there is no functionality and will not make the tile easier or harder to use

The only difference is "beauty and ugliness": while the aesthetic aspect varies from person to person. So if I were given another chance, I would definitely follow my heart: choose my favorite gray or brown.

You can be ugly, but I have no reason to be scolded for it.

#04.Tile cleaning

I don't know if there is such a saying now (I haven't paid attention to tile seams for a long time), I was very popular when I was decorating: choose light-colored seams, because workers need to clean the tiles particularly clean in order not to pollute the seams.

Practice tells me that there is no truth in this sentence at all!

The gold I chose was also light gold, not to mention white, just waiting for the workers to complete the cleaning for me. Afterwards, I found out that I really thought too much:

Workers don't do anything more because of the color of the seam, just do a simple cleaning of the surface of the tile. Since my family did not do land cleaning, there were a lot of black spots on the beautiful seams in the later stage, which will be discussed later.

So even though there is no fixed time requirement for tile seams, Obuchi still wants to say:It is best to wait until the cleaning is done before doing tile seams, which can reduce many hidden dangers in the later stage

#05.Brick joint cleaning

Finally, the tile seam workers entered, and the construction officially began.

The first stage made me angry: the first step in the sewing work is to clean the tile joints, and the workers need to clean out all the dirt in the tile cracks.

There are two ways to clean it up:

One is manual, using tools such as screwdrivers, shovel blades, wallpaper knives, etc., to pick out little by little.

The other is electric, and the gaps are cleaned with a tool similar to an angle grinder.

A lot of tile edges have become like this.

Like the one in the picture above, this has happened many times in my house. Not only the tiles, but even the threshold stone at the door of the anti-theft door gave me a lot of pits.

There's only one way I can think of to avoid this kind of problem:Go to the site to supervise the work! And the beauty of the sewing must be done before the whole house of the tile**, my family is because there is no evidence to prove that it is the tile damaged by the beautiful seam, and the later tear has been pulled for a long time, and still no compensation has been obtained.

#06.On-site hygiene

The principle of my looking for the beauty sewing construction team is: big! Find a larger construction team, I think my heart will be more steady.

As I turned out to be wrong, there were a lot of people in the big construction team, and there were five or six workers in my house at the same time. There are more people and I can work fast, and it will take me more than half a day to finish this house.

But the problem caused by the large number of people is that the hygiene in the construction process cannot be guaranteed

There are so many people that you can't walk around the room. In the process of walking around on the ground, it is inevitable that the dust on the ground will be brought to the freshly made sewing agent (also blame me for not doing the cleaning of the wasteland, there is too much dust on the ground).

So look at the final beauty of my house, there will be small black spots in many of the gaps. Some of the black spots are dust, some are stones that have fallen into them, in shortIt was all caused during the construction process

#07.Half-filled

When I was looking for the construction team, someone gave me **800 yuan, and I said in my heart, why is it so cheap? Later, I found out that his house was half-filled by a neighbor who had done a beautiful sewing at his house.

The tile joints don't look very wide, but they're actually deep inside.

However, the stability of the grout is very poor, and after one or two years, the grout will slowly disappear (run out along the gap, or become very flat after seeing water), and the surface of the grout will fall off and collapse.

Caulk, also known as caulk, is mainly composed of white cement.

In the first few years of the appearance of the sewing agent, the first grade of the sewing agent was very high, so the semi-filling was commonly used. Now almost all the sewing agents are the price of cabbage, which is not much more expensive than glass glue, and naturally they are all used to fill up.

The vast majority of merchants** are full by default, but just in case, we still have to ask:Is it full? After receiving a positive answer, you can rest assured that they will be handed over to the construction.

#08.Beauty sewing agent, porcelain sewing agent, epoxy colored sand

In colloquial language, it is generally said that "tile seams", including in my article, I have been talking about "beautiful seams".

But it's not true, strictly speakingIn the past five years, it has been difficult to see beauty sewing agents on the market- Almost all of them are porcelain seams. Only in the first few years of the appearance of the sewing agent, the sewing agent was used briefly.

The feeling of the sewing agent is similar to that of glass glue:Go and touch the glass glue on the side of the sink, sink and toilet at home, is it soft and elastic? After the sewing agent is used, it is also the same touch

This kind of surface is very unstrong, and it is easy to leave a mark or cut off a piece.

So now it is common to use porcelain grouts: the surface after drying is smooth and hard like a tile. When you put it together with the tiles, you can't even tell if you don't open your eyes.

Epoxy colored sand is also a beauty sewing product, but it has always been relatively niche. The sewing agent and porcelain sewing agent are the same as the glass glue, which is made from a tube. But epoxy colored sand is very similar to putty and is paste-like.

Epoxy colored sand construction.

#09.Pressing joint construction

Continue to talk about the construction of ceramic tile seams: I have seen the glass glue, the glass glue is cylindrical, very ugly and ugly. In fact, the same is true for the sewing agent, which needs to be flattened after it is beaten.

This step is called "seam pressing".

There are two ways to seam it:

Use a scraper to press the seam, and the surface is flat after pressing.

Using the caulking tool, the brick joint is recessed after pressing.

This method is more of a test of technology, the pressure is large, the seam will be concave more, and the strength is small, and the concave will be less. The pressure of a gap fluctuates, and the gap will be uneven

Especially in some corners, corners and other places where the hand is not easy to reach into, it is difficult to grasp the pressure of the seam. Therefore, it is best to complete the sewing work before the soft decoration begins, like my house is to do the beautiful sewing after installing the sanitary ware, there are many uneven seams next to the toilet and behind the toilet.

#10.Corner detailing

Now that we're talking about the corners, let's talk about it. There are three problems that tend to arise in the corners:

I said it earlierBad constructionproblems.

Easy to forgetThis kind of problem has occurred in several corners of my house. Some people forgot to use the sewing agent, and some people forgot to press the sewing agent after the sewing agent. There is also a seam after forgetting to shovel off the edge of the sewing agent, in short, it is a mess.

Asymmetry! This is the worst thing. For example, on both sides of the balcony door of my house, only one side has been sewn, but the same position on the other side has not been done, which was added after I reminded it.

There is no good way to do these details, you can only check them carefully! Emphasis on one more:The acceptance of ceramic tile joints is very simple, that is, inspection, little by little, without letting go of any detail.