It has become a common sense in the industry to lay tiles with grout lines, but for the owners who know little about tiles, it seems that leaving grout line or not is not a principle problem. Many people will even actively ask for no seams or fine seams in order to pursue the aesthetic effect. Once there is a problem after tile laying without grout lines, it is often considered to be the quality of ceramic tiles. In order to avoid this situation, how to guide customers to treat the problem of grout line reserving correctly with sufficient reasons?

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5 Reason For Laying Tiles With Grout Tiles

1. Reduce The Influence Of Tile Error On Tiling Effect

Every tile is not perfect. Almost all ceramic tiles have subtle errors in length, right angle, edge straightness, etc., and the errors within the relevant parameters are products that meet the standards. This kind of error will not have a negative visual impact through the operation of grout line reserving. For example, proper grout line reserving can ensure that the seam of the tiling surface is neat, avoid the seam deflection caused by the size deviation of the brick, and affect the overall paving effect.

2. Reduce The Unsightly Effect Caused By Manual Error

Tiling is a rigorous work with high technical requirements for workers. However, the process of manual tiling cannot be completely accurate. Without joints, the final flatness and joints are prone to problems. In the case of grout joint reservation, the tile laying workers can reduce the subsequent impact by adjusting the width of the tile joint to ensure the visual effect.

3. Can Effectively Avoid Hollowing

Although ceramic tile is a material with stable physical properties, it will still produce various expansion phenomena due to the change of temperature and humidity. If the joint is too small under the action of heat or expansion in case of humidity, stress may occur between adjacent tiles and squeeze each other, resulting in hollowing. The scope of hollowing gradually expands, which will eventually lead to the falling off of tiles.

4. Saving Materials

It is convenient to adjust the tile spacing randomly according to the actual paved area, so that the whole tile can be used as far as possible at the corners, which is beautiful and time-saving.

5. Enhance The Layering And Stereoscopic Sense Of Paving Effect

In particular, some rustic tiles, exterior wall tiles, cultural bricks, etc., which pursue special effects, need to leave wide seams.

There are many kinds of grout sealer, which can get rid of the single tone. In the past, the joint filling material of ceramic tile was generally white cement mixed with joint filling agent. The color was single, and the white tile joint was easy to be dirty, which was also the reason why many owners did not like to leave the joint. Now, the material of the grout sealer has been improved continuously, with more colors, which can basically meet the color matching needs of the ceramic tiles. Secondly, the antifouling performance has also been greatly improved. The products such as caulking agent, tacking agent and tacking adhesive are not easy to be dirty, yellow and moldy. Fine grout lines are easier to hide dirt, harder to clean.