The Best Option For Your Shower Floor : Ceramic Tile Shower Floor

     

    Ceramic Tile Shower Floor - The Best Option

    By David Patullo

    The thing with bathrooms, and especially showers is that there is a lot of moist produced there. And for you, as a owner of a house, and a person that is taking care of it, it is important that the materials used in your bathroom can easily fill out certain criteria you had placed for it. These criteria should always include the following:

    1. The materials used need to be durable. This is important for any room in the house, but it is especially important for the bathroom, as due to the heat and the moist to which these materials are exposed to, they are particularly prone to taking damage.

    2. The materials used must be resistant to water and humidity. This is somewhat connected to the previously mentioned quality, the durability. In short, a bathroom will often be exposed to moist and humidity of sorts, and it is crucial that materials used to not take any damage form that influence.

    3. It is important to be able to keep your bathroom clean. That is, of course important for every room in the house, but it very important for bathrooms.

    If you think about it, it will be clear to you that ceramic tile shower floor is the best for your bathroom, according to the above mentioned criteria. Here are a few things you should keep in mind when installing a ceramic tile shower floor in your bathroom.

    First of all, make sure that the tiles you have chosen have a matte finish. This is important, as this will make those tiles less slippery. Needless to point out how this is important for your security. Alternatively you could purchase smaller tiles, or some sort of a mosaic tiles, as these will also be less slippery, simply due to their small size, and the fact they have many joints, which disallow slipping.

    For the actual installation of the tiles, you can choose to leave this job of installing the ceramic tile shower floor to a professional, as he is more likely to do the job properly. However, if you want to do this on your own, there are a lot of things about the installment you need to take care of.

    You should take provide a smooth floor before tiling. If there are imperfections, you should scrape them off. The next thing to do is to measure your floor, and think of a design that will definitely allow your tiles to fit in when you are installing your ceramic tile shower floor. When you start laying tiles, you fill have to cut them occasionally. To not be reluctant to do this. It is absolutely necessary for laying of tiles. After that you should spread a thin set on the floor that will serve as a base for laying the tiles on. You should make sure you place the tiles firmly on that base. After all that is done, you need to to grout the tiles on your ceramic tile shower floor.

    If you take care of everything mentioned here, and place a ceramic tile shower floor, you will surely be satisfied with it, as it will serve you for a long time, and it will not create any extra hassles for you.