Very
few tile layers know today the correct installation techniques and
tricks
to lay large
format tiles
without damaging them, those tiles that have dimensions from a
minimum of 1 meter by 3 meters by 6 mm or more. I do not mean
Kerlite, the 3 mm one which now seems to be a little outdated.
Tilers
and contractors of construction indulge themselves to call them in
the most different ways
Giant
tiles
Large
format tiles
Large-format
or giant plates
Extra
large tiles
and
so on and so forth.
The
fact remains that today this material is on the market, producing
companies promote it and architects include it in their projects,
but the drama remains on finding installers who can place them
seriously with guaranteed results.
Being
a new product,
few have had the opportunity to learn how to lay it and almost nobody
has the suitable tile cutters for cutting and handling these huge and
very expensive tiles.
Those
who currently pose with the famous “Italian
technique”,
use an angle grinder as a tile cutter to do everything, including
damaging tiles.
With
this type of tile which can cost
more than 500 dollars each,
one is not allowed to play and if you don't rely on a professional
and experienced tile layer it's easy to throw hundreds of dollars
from the window.
The
improvised tile layer says that the tile is defective or impossible
to cut but that's not the truth.
Anyway,
this pose is (finally) making a selection between Sunday tilers and
the serious ones.
The
producers, on their hand, are attempting to rapidly train layers
using the right tile cutters,
but we all know this is a process that takes time. Let's wait and
see.
What
is certain is that in terms of aesthetics and practicality, these
giants tiles are changing the world of architecture and indirectly
also the world of tile-laying, which is our own.
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