Tiles – the material of first choice

Walls and floors – they are vir­tu­ally the stage and frame­work for our home life and fur­nish­ings. Due to their large sur­face area, they have a great influ­ence on the look of the rooms but also on our health. What advant­ages do tiles offer over oth­er wall and floor cov­er­ings? What is import­ant when choos­ing and installing tiles? We provide answers.

1. Functionality – a strong argument for tiles

Water, mois­ture and dirt do not cause per­man­ent stains on tiles. Fall­ing objects pro­duce less dam­age, hard heels leave no scratches. Tiles are easy to clean, hygien­ic and hard-wear­ing. Moreover, the ceram­ic cov­er­ing is com­pat­ible with under­floor heat­ing sys­tems. As tiles are firmly bon­ded to the sub­strate, there is no sep­ar­at­ing air space between floor­ing mater­i­al and sub­strate. The radi­ated heat reaches the liv­ing rooms and bare­foot areas quickly and effi­ciently. Thanks to their func­tion­al­ity, tiles are not only pop­u­lar for use in kit­chens and bath­rooms, but also in halls and cel­lars, on ter­races and in gar­ages. Today, these prac­tic­al bene­fits are com­ple­men­ted by a mul­ti­tude of mod­ern designs. That’s why these all-round­ers have increas­ingly found their way into our liv­ing rooms.

2. Enhance your living space with tasteful designs

White and square – a design of time­less eleg­ance. But mod­ern tiles can be so much more. The great vari­ety of avail­able col­ors, decors and formats, of lay­ing pat­terns, tex­tures and gloss grades leaves noth­ing to be desired. Wheth­er play­ful, col­or­ful or tone-on-tone, wheth­er small mosa­ic or large, almost joint-free sur­faces with XXL tiles of 25 x 150 cm up to 320 x 160 cm size – there is some­thing for every­one. Tiles can even imit­ate the look of wood and nat­ur­al stone. Thus, tiles com­bine a max­im­um of design options with a great num­ber of prac­tic­al advant­ages.

3. Make the right choice and have your tiles expertly installed

Space util­iz­a­tion and slip res­ist­ance are import­ant cri­ter­ia when choos­ing the right tile. To be on the safe side, you should ask the experts work­ing in spe­cial­ist stores. When it comes to install­a­tion, you had bet­ter con­tract the work to a pro­fes­sion­al tiler. He knows which adhes­ive mor­tar is best suited for the sub­strate and on under­floor heat­ing. He care­fully pre­pares the sub­floor. After clean­ing, he levels the sur­face and removes any uneven­ness. Before apply­ing the adhes­ive mor­tar, he primes the sur­face to ensure a reli­able bond between sub­floor and tile. Finally, he installs the tiles with the desired pat­tern, fills the joints with a suit­able tile grout and seals the con­nec­tions with sil­ic­one.

4. Use healthy and environmentally friendly installation products

Tile install­a­tion is prefer­ably done with EMICODE®-cer­ti­fied products. The eco label is awar­ded to the world’s least pol­lut­ing install­a­tion products like lev­el­ling and smooth­ing com­pounds, primers, tile adhes­ives, grouts, sil­ic­ones and many more. The required tests are car­ried out by inde­pend­ent labor­at­or­ies. Reg­u­lar spot checks ensure that the lim­it val­ues are com­plied with in the long term – an import­ant advant­age of EMICODE® over oth­er cer­ti­fic­ates for health and envir­on­ment­al com­pat­ib­il­ity.

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7 May 2019