Choosing Quality Marble Tiles
Post Date: 22 Apr 2009 Viewed: 810
Marble is the most beautiful flooring design that a house can have. It is much beautiful than highest graded granite hands down. Marble tiles are commonly used in the living room; it gives elegance to the house and also brightens the whole ho use if right marble was installed on the flooring.
Before deciding to install marble tile, you need to learn some basic things with regard to marble tiles. You should know how to maintain its beauty and the basic things to learn on how to install a marble and at the same time preserved the elegance of it.
In installing marble there are a lot of consideration you need to know. Consideration like, what kind of marble tile you want for your home, selecting the right bonding material that you will use or adhesive products that will help you install the marble. You should learn some guidelines that will help you lessen the installation hazard and expensive errors.
You should understand that marble tiles came from a left over fro m the cutting of larger slabs, so finding a set of visually and texturally that will be compatible and large enough to cover the whole flooring. Knowing this you should buy marbles to the expert installer to have consistency and be ensured in installing the marble.
In installing natural marble, they should be cut to the narrowest thickness that can be polished, handled, chipped, package and installed without being broke. This manner of cutting of marbles formed the most tiles form a block marbles; this will make cost lower and more available.
Used bonding that is red, green and black colored. This material include definite materials that can blister, soften and swell when this marble were moist and poured with water. Colored marbles are sensitive to waters. Ask the marble manufacturer if the marble is sensitive to water before purchasing so that you have the idea on how to manage this kind of marble and a void it to spill with water.
When cutting marbles it requires skills be cause of some complicated and it involves decorative design pattern. For a custom cut on the tile use cutting saw. In cutting the tile the cutting saw should be cooled for the refinement of the edge of the marble. To avoid staining on a certain tile pieces, you should clean the saw be fore cutting the tile, this will assure that dirt was removed.
And everything is set up and your marble is properly installed on your flooring, the effort of installing the marble will be paid by the beauty that this tile can bring on your home. All you have to do is to maintained it and take good care of it. Make sure to keep it away from acidic chemical and liquid spill to prevent discoloration on your tiles. Proper lights installed will also provide a better outcome on your marble tiles. It will brighten a certain room. Also marble tiles can freshen up the whole house because it maintains coolness and absorb heat.