Revamp your home with glossy tiles

If you are fur­nish­ing a new home or want to ren­ov­ate your old one from scratch, you should pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to walls and floors. They are vir­tu­ally the stage and the frame­work for your fur­nish­ings and home life. Due to their large sur­face area, they greatly influ­ence the ambi­ance of a room. Their struc­ture and design have a decis­ive impact on the indoor cli­mate and thus on our health.

Tiles are the clas­sic choice for both walls and floors in kit­chens and bath­rooms. The advant­ages are obvi­ous: Water, mois­ture and dirt do not cause per­man­ent stains on tiles. Fall­ing objects pro­duce less dam­age, hard heels leave no scratches. Even the acids and alkalis con­tained in gentle nat­ur­al clean­ers do not affect the tiles. They are easy-care, hygien­ic and hard-wear­ing. That’s why these all-round­ers are so pop­u­lar in halls and cel­lars, on ter­races and in gar­ages. Mean­while, they have even estab­lished them­selves for use in liv­ing rooms.

Tiles can score a lot of points thanks to their great diversity. The huge range of avail­able col­ors, decors, formats and lay­ing pat­terns but also of tex­tures and gloss levels leaves noth­ing to be desired. Wheth­er play­ful, col­or­ful or tone-on-tone, wheth­er small mosa­ic tiles or large, almost joint-free sur­faces with XXL tiles – there is some­thing to suit every taste. Tiles can even imit­ate the look of wood and nat­ur­al stone. And they are per­fectly suited for use on under­floor heat­ing. As they are firmly bon­ded, there is no sep­ar­at­ing air space between them and the sub­strate. The heat is there­fore quickly and effi­ciently trans­ferred to the liv­ing space and bare­foot zones.

Floor tiles should be selec­ted so that they match the use of the room and provide the neces­sary slip res­ist­ance. To be on the safe side, build­ing own­ers can ask the experts work­ing for spe­cial­ized deal­ers. And when it comes to tile install­a­tion, it is bet­ter to con­tract the work to a pro­fes­sion­al tiler. He knows which adhes­ive mor­tar is best suited for the sub­strate and on under­floor heat­ing sys­tems. He care­fully pre­pares the screed: After clean­ing, he removes uneven areas with a lev­el­ling com­pound and applies a primer to ensure a firm bond. After apply­ing the adhes­ive, he installs the tiles with the desired pat­tern. And finally he fills the joints with a suit­able tile grout and seals the con­nec­tions with sil­ic­one.