For each of the owners being renovated, and no one wants to buy high-quality ceramic tile. As usual the attention of tile less the face of an array of ceramic tiles are often unable to pick. So, home decoration, how to buy the tiles of value for money, a bed of roses? A good selection of tiles in general there are five principles, that is, look, two, three drops of water four feet, five floor.
A look at the appearance. The color of the tile to be uniform, better surface finish and flatness, neighboring rules, the entire pattern, from a box out of a piece of 45 to see whether the chromatic aberration, distortion, lack of edge less angle and other defects.
Second, listen to the sound. Tap with a hard object, sound more crisp, the higher the degree of porcelain, the better the quality. You can also use the left thumb, index finger and porcelain tiles corner of the middle finger folder, easy to hang, tap the tiles in the lower right index finger, such as sound is clear, bright, pleasant for the top grade, such as the sound is dull, hysteresis of turbidity compared with low-grade.
Three dripping trial. Will drop in the ceramic tile on the back, look at the speed of infiltration in the water spread out, in general, water absorption is slower, the greater the density of the tile; the contrary, the absorbent and the faster the density of sparse, the intrinsic quality of the former is superior. High water absorption tiles by thermal expansion and contraction will lead to spalling of the ceramic tile surface cracks and the entire wall and floor tiles. Bathroom in the northern environment with four distinct seasons, should pay more attention to this problem. If the tile does not indicate the water absorption, tea or water droplets on the back of the tile, after a few minutes to inspect the degree of spread of droplets, the more non-absorbent, it means that the low water absorption, the better the quality.
Fourth, a measuring tape. Tile side length of the accuracy the higher the better after the Stones, to buy good quality tile not only construction, but can save hours of work and accessories. Tape measure the size of each piece of ceramic tile surrounding whether the differences in precision for the top grade.
Five floor. Measuring the flatness and color. Come up with kind of a few pieces of brick, flat to interview shop, to see whether the gap between brick and brick, straight chamfer is uniform, whether arched phenomenon; while observing the color change, large chromatic aberration generally do not selection, except to seek some kind of “special effects”.
In addition, the observation of its hardness, ceramic tile good to hardness, toughness, non-friable bad for the top grade. Scratch tile fragment angular to each other, look at the shards, breaks in dense or loose, is hard, brittle or softer, is leaving scratches, or loose powder, such as the former is the top grade, the latter that is, poor quality. Whether the size standard for judging one of the priorities of the tile merits of the diagonal and four sides of the tile using a tape measure or caliper measurement size and thickness uniformity, good tiles, sound Cui Xiang, indicating a high ceramic content. If the sound is “blah” with the broken stubble sound of the bricks containing cracks.