When decorating a home, do you have to use beautiful seams in the middle of the tiles?

In our home decoration, when laying tiles, there will be a small gap between tiles to prevent the tiles from arching and cracking because of "thermal expansion and cold contraction" in the later period. However, there are gaps between tiles, which can protect the tiles, but also affect the appearance. Black ditch is not beautiful, and it is easy to hide evil people and shelter evil people.

Because of this, tile caulking has gradually become an indispensable link in decoration, and with the increasing demand for tile caulking, people are no longer satisfied with "just caulking", but also hope that the cracks in tiles are more durable and beautiful, so "the beauty of tile caulking" has become popular.

However, in recent years, tile seams have only become popular, so there are many "pits", which cost tens of thousands of dollars casually, and there are too many "IQ taxes" inside. If you want to make a beautiful seam, is there any way to pay less IQ tax? Today, let's talk about some principles that should be clarified before making a beautiful sewing agent.

Types of caulking agent Before making caulking agent, it should be clear that caulking agent is decoration project, tile should be caulked, and the most important thing is caulking agent.

There are many kinds of caulking agents, such as the earliest white cement, the later caulking agents and beautiful caulking agents, and the more advanced porcelain caulking agents and epoxy colored sand, all of which are caulking materials. Just for convenience, we divide it into three categories: white cement, caulking agent and caulking agent (caulking agent, porcelain caulking agent and epoxy colored sand).

White cement has been eliminated now, leaving only two mainstream caulking materials: caulking agent and caulking agent.

Therefore, the jointing of ceramic tiles is to fill the joints with jointing agent; In a narrow sense, cosmetic joints are filled with traditional cosmetic joint agents as joint filling materials; In a broad sense, seaming is to use seaming agent, porcelain seaming agent and epoxy colored sand as seam filling materials (now most of them tend to call it that).

The traditional one-component sewing agent lacks environmental protection, and after drying, it will form grooves, which is easy to hide evil and accommodate evil. Two-component porcelain caulking agent is more environmentally friendly, more durable, richer in color, but strong in luster, and it is easy to decorate the home into a hotel lobby; Epoxy colored sand inherits the advantages of porcelain caulking agent and has a matte texture. In principle, it is the most ideal sewing material, but it is also the most expensive.

There are so many kinds of caulking agents that there are three kinds of light caulking materials. If we want to caulk our tiles, we must first find out what caulking materials to use and choose the appropriate caulking materials. Otherwise, the decoration company is likely to charge the price of epoxy colored sand, give the service of ordinary caulking agent, and even use caulking agent as caulking agent to fool consumers.

Beautiful seams are not necessary. Many decoration companies will over-promote the function of tile joint, and then regard it as a necessary item for decoration, which is actually wrong. The joint of ceramic tile is too small, less than 0.5mm, which is not suitable for beautiful joint (construction is difficult), and the joint is too big, which is not suitable for beautiful joint (too much material is not cost-effective).

In the role of caulking, whether it is using ordinary caulking agent or caulking agent, it is the same. The purpose of caulking tiles is to improve the value of home and make us feel that tiles look better. Of course, it is undeniable that the caulking agent also has the function of moistureproof and antifouling, but there is no need to worry about moistureproof and antifouling in bathrooms, kitchens and other areas, and there is no need to caulk.

Besides, as long as better quality jointing agent is used, the durability will not be too bad, so it is really not a necessity to sew beautifully.

Try not to do it yourself. In order to save labor costs, many people choose to buy sewing materials themselves and do it themselves. Although sewing by yourself can save a lot of labor costs, it also means paying more time and energy.

Aside from this, if it is unprofessional, the loss of sewing agent will increase, and the wasted material cost may be offset by the labor cost. The most regrettable thing is that it cost a lot of money, and the final sewing effect is not ideal. All have to be shoveled off, and the sewing master has to be asked to work again, losing his wife and losing his soldiers.

If the budget is insufficient, if you want to save costs, you can try jointing at the grass-roots level, fill the bottom with jointing agent, and then fill the surface with jointing agent, which can effectively save the material and labor costs of jointing agent. After all, the material cost and labor cost of jointing agent are cheaper.

Moreover, this practice can also make up for the shortcomings of simply using jointing agent, and the surface jointing agent is resistant to dirt and moisture, more durable and more beautiful.

Color matching is the most important when choosing caulking agent. The purpose of caulking our tiles is to make them look better. If the color of the caulking agent is not selected and doesn't match the color of the tile, then no matter how good and high-grade the material is, it is useless to sew.

You can refer to these five methods when choosing the color matching of sewing agent:

1. It is recommended to choose a solid color and matte caulking agent, which has a weak sense of existence and can highlight the aesthetic feeling of ceramic tiles without causing visual burden.

2. It is recommended to choose neutral colors, such as black and white gray, vanilla color, beige color, light brown and so on.

3. If you want to emphasize brick joints, choose a color scheme that is strongly contrasted with the color of tiles, such as bright bricks+dark joints and dark bricks+bright joints, which can emphasize the sense of lines in tile paving.

4. If you want to weaken the existence of brick seams, choose a beautiful seam color matching similar to ceramic tiles, that is, light-colored bricks+light-colored seams, which is clean and tidy and has stronger spatial integrity.

5. Pay attention to the use of color cards, see the effect of finished products, and avoid color difference. Nowadays, all the brands of beautiful seams will provide color cards, so that we can see the effect of beautiful seams of ceramic tiles more intuitively and choose our favorite beautiful seam color scheme by feeling.