Modern finishing work allows you to bring in an ideal condition any, even an old or uncomfortable apartment, of course, if the case is taken by specialists Kabanchik.ua.
But, if you love and know how to work carefully with finishing materials, you can make an apartment cozy and with your own hands. Any decorative brick will not find its place in the interior, if the technological regulations of masonry will not be observed. To obtain the ideal masonry decorating surface, it is necessary to use a suitable adhesive solution, to choose a pattern corresponding to the thickness of the brick and the seam. Then the hopes of finishing will be justified.
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Decorative brick and its varieties
The general opinion of builders and designers, a practical and inexpensive decorative material is a decorative brick for interior decoration. Decorative brick is used for decoration of walls, doorways and arches, creating a memorable design of the kitchen, living room and corridor.
Effective varieties of decor made of bricks based on cement and gypsum or clinker bricks require the correct preparation of the masonry mix and specific stowage. Brick on cement-gypsum basis is an artificial stone in briquettes, half the thickness of the product, reminiscent of the configuration and color shades of ordinary brick.
A variation of such a brick is distinguished by its average density, strength and, of course, price. Decorative brick on cement-sandy basis is able to withstand the weight of the masonry.
Clinker brick is a more expensive material, which is distinguished by a higher density, a smooth surface and a qualitative color that allows the clinker to look natural and attractive.
The surface texture of the decorative clinker can be smooth or corrugated, as well as a rectangular or rounded shape that allows the material to be used when decorating the apertures. High fire resistance of decorative clinker provides the material to use when decorating fireplace gates.
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Let's say that the masonry made of decorative bricks is not combined in the interior with the classical style, Provence and Shebbi-chic. The power and roughness of the brick decor for any kind of masonry will look ridiculous and will bring dissonance into the overall interior solution. The exception is a paved fragment of the finish with an alternation of the brickwork by the end face and the length of the face. This is the most common method of framing doorways.
Decorative bricks decoration
It is known that decorative brick is an ornament of the interior and carries a good soundproof and heat insulation function. At the same time, the life of the sealed surface retains its original appearance for several decades. When exterior decoration decorative bricks, coatings with a water-repellent composition, acquires high resistance to moisture.
Not for nothing, the sphere of use and application of the material are works related to high-quality masonry and cladding.
As a facing product, the brick resembles a tile of natural materials with the possibility of subsequent otakturvaniya, giving a convenient installation of the product picture and appearance.
Finishing brick decor appropriate for facade country houses, moreover, that the embodiments of the decorative brick laying varied and allows to use the material of regular geometric shapes and bricks with rounded corners. Imitation of brick or stone masonry with alternating spoon and tipped edges are used when creating textured walls of European pattern.
However, do not be tempted by the speedy result. Brickwork from decorative bricks prefers laborious execution with observance of manufacturability and the skilful approach.
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For laying brick, set apart from the traditional masonry, you must use a special tool: a flexible spatula and brush for applying the solution, knife and file for processing grinder cut tile edges. All tools helpers, consumables allow you to technologically produce stowage.
Decorative bricks laying
The technology of decorative brick laying consists of the stages:
- preparation of the working surface (priming and reinforcement if necessary)
- preparation of a brick for a sticker (alignment and selection by structure and color)
- selection and preparation of adhesive solution
- surface marking
- laying the first row
- subsequent stacking
- filling of the seams of the field (grout)
- cleaning of finished bricks.
Creation of decorative brickwork can be made on a dry concrete, foam concrete and brick foundation, capable of withstanding a layer thickness of 15 to 30 mm (thickness of the tile). The option of laying decorative bricks by oneself is not excluded. It is preliminary recommended to determine the type of masonry and to make a simple calculation of the material.
The calculation is made as follows: in general, the total area of the intended cladding is calculated and the total amount of areas not subject to decoration is subtracted from the result. Then the result is divided by the area of one brick. The final figure shows the required amount of material. It must be remembered that the method of laying and the grouting method affect the final result.
choose the type of masonry
For laying decorative bricks using existing types of masonry. Recall that this species: Old Russian masonry Crusade way and Silesian Gothic, laying track, Bavarian and Brandenburg masonry. To create an interior, the type of masonry is important.
To decorate a separate wall of the living room or hallway, a simple masonry type is suitable. A more complex type can be used to frame the openings.
The most common and accessible types of masonry for hand-made execution are the Old Russian and the laying of a path. For old Russian masonry, the alternation of a spoon and a poke is characteristic with the creation of a coincident vertical seam through a row.
When laying a path, the decorative bricks are laid lengthwise. The offset is ½ or ¼ of the brick. These types of masonry allow you to economically use the material when creating decorating window and doorways, as well as niches. Any kind of masonry should be in one direction, namely from the top down, excluding the contamination of bricks by the working solution.
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To check the size of the brick and adjust the quality of the masonry use the "dry masonry". To check the thickness of the seams, the first row is laid out in a dry manner and, with the use of a level and a stretched cord, the thickness of the seam and the alignment of the rows are corrected. In this case, a chain and multi-row dressing of the joints is used.
masonry mortar
The choice of masonry mortar is based on the composition of the material, the density and the weight of the brick. Naturally, the preparation of a mortar for the laying of decorative bricks, whose types depend on the porosity of the stones, differs in the content of water in the solution.
For example, for a porous brick (sandstone and white granite), a solution mixed with cement is excluded and ready-made adhesives are used without water.
Adhesive bricks performed on cleaned and prepared (primed for call 2) base using a notched trowel, which is tilted at an angle of 60 ° relative to the working base.
The adhesive solution is rubbed with filling all the irregularities and dents until it completely contacts the base, eliminating the formation of microcracks.
Let's tell, that popular pasting compositions are: Mixtures Ceresit SM11, SM17, SM115.
All the useful information about the sticker of decorative bricks and the grouting of seams, is offered in the video.
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