Construction & Finishes

Name :Lama Khaled Hachem

Instructor name : Dr Jaafar Abdallah
Course name : construction & finishes
Code : AIDS320
Semester : FALL 2020_ 2021

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Definition of tiles
Tiles are chips of clay, cement, rubber, or other
materials that cover the floor or walls of a room.

Ordinary cement tiles

It is usually used on the upper surfaces or for
flooring of building rooms, and it consists mainly of
cement and sand.

Steel crete tiles

It is a concrete tile reinforced with iron filings and its surface
is polygonal, checkered or plain. This type of tile is resistant to
friction, humidity, fatty substances and acids, due to the
presence of filings and sulfristic materials in its manufacture,
and it is found in different colors.
Mosaic tiles broken marble
It works from two layers of lining and the face and contains
broken marble from a variety of colored stones, white cement
and marble powder, to which the required color is added and
mixed in constant standard proportions, the best of which are
automatic types manufactured under high hydraulic pressure,
and they are made and left to dry and then shown well and
used in all rooms of buildings, tiles Mosaic in different
sizes:40 x 40 x 4 cm, 30 x 30 x 3 cm, 20 x 20 x 2 cm

Mosaic flooring beveled marble

It is a distinct type of mosaic flooring to break the marble,
where it is placed in the mortar of the mixture used to
rinse the marble with the entire flat of the slab and
sometimes distributed to large tiles in aesthetic forms
(where one piece or two pieces are placed in a single slab)
and to break the marble in small sizes preferably of the
same type of rinsing marble, and added To the mixture
the required color and this type of tiles have large sizes:
50 x 50 x 5 cm, 40 x 40 x 4 cm, 30 x 30 x 3 cm
Industrial marble tiles
It is made by mixing different materials from white cement,
marble powder and mineral oxides of special colors with
chemicals, and the mixture is poured into different tile molds
and it is very similar to natural marble in its colors and shapes
and is preferred for cladding interior spaces and floors in
buildings.

Marble tiles
Marble gives luxury to the types of floors, and its colors are
multiple and attractive, and it is suitable in hot places that
need to extend the place relatively cold as it works to reduce
the air temperature (it does not need large carpets to cover it,
rather it increases the beauty of placing small pieces on it, and
it must be cleaned as soon as stains occur before they are
established And difficult to remove as it is washed with warm
soapy water with the use of a loofah, rinses well, and polishes
with a piece of wool) It cuts some types of natural marble into
tiles and is generally used in main halls, entrances, stairs, wall
cladding and columns.
Marble types:

Puccino (brown rose and brown cream)

Brlato (Beige)Trieste (colored and light beige)

Dolette creams (white and light beige)

Travertino (perforated perforated)

Trieste (colored and light beige)

White _ green
Porcelain is used as wall cladding, while ceramics will be used
as floor covering

Porcelain tiles
These tiles have a glazed face that is used for wall cladding
only, such as cladding the walls of bathrooms, kitchens and
laboratories, and these tiles are usually found in the market in
many bright colors or decorative brams

Ceramic tile
Ceramic tiles are a clay mixture whose shape is first formed
and then given hardening by exposure to an extremely high
temperature of 1230 ° C. It may be left alone, glazed, or later
decorated with inorganic materials such as kaolin, quartz, and
feldspar. These tiles include many, varied, and distinct
products among themselves according to their primary
components, production methods, structural properties,
mechanical strength, finishes, dimensions, shapes and colors.