What are the types of tiles? How do you classify it?

When most people can choose to use ceramic tiles for decoration now, friends in the building materials market know that there are many types of tiles, I don't know how to choose, ceramic tiles are one of the most indispensable materials for domestic decoration, when choosing, the appearance is the same, regardless of each other, then, what are the types of tiles? How to choose ceramic tiles?

Classification of ceramic tiles: Ceramic tiles are divided into floor tiles, wall tiles and waist line tiles according to their functions. Floor tiles:

According to the design and color, it is divided into imitation Spanish bricks, Bobian polished tiles, glazed tiles, non-slip tiles and seepage polished tiles. Wall tiles: can be divided into Bobian wall tiles and printed wall tiles according to patterns and colors.

Glazed bricks: The outstanding advantages of glazed bricks are impermeability, dirt resistance, and easy cleaning, but the main glazed bricks have a good degree of anti-slip, rich color design, many specifications, and large selection space.

Wood grain bricks: wood grain bricks can avoid defects such as fading and wear-resistant wood floors, and have a long service life and high wear resistance, and do not need to be regularly waxed and maintained like wood products, and can be used in outdoor spaces such as balconies.

Arch brick: Arch brick is called retro brick, it is made of the arch effect of porcelain brick to make it glazed in nature, and when the humidity of the arch brick is high, the water vapor is inhaled, and then released when dry, it will not condense water vapor on the surface, it is not easy to slip off, and the safety is higher.

Quartz bricks: Quartz bricks are made of quartz fine particles or powders. Generally speaking, tiles with lower water absorption will not absorb more water, and quartz tiles have the lowest water absorption among many tiles, only 1%-3%, and the best moisture-proof ability.

Ceramic mosaic brick: also known as mosaic brick, it is a kind of ceramic tile with exquisite appearance, rich patterns and colors that has emerged in recent years. Due to its relatively small shape and unique variety of material types, it is often used for small area floor decoration.

Emery tile: Emery tile is to add a natural silica sand layer to the tile, so that it absorbs water and has an excellent anti-slip effect, which is very suitable for the elderly or young children, and can be used in kitchens, balconies, and bathrooms.

In fact, the purchase of ceramic tiles basically looks at three kinds: one is wear-resistant, the second is good anti-slip, and the third is not easy to break, the number of words is small, and the ceramic tiles on the market are almost the same, and there is no need to specifically bump the word count problem.

From the category of ceramic tiles, it is divided into porcelain tiles, full-body tiles, polished tiles, and glazed tiles.

Porcelain tiles. The ceramic body of porcelain tiles has high water absorption, easy to pave on the wall, and low cost, so it is widely used in kitchen and bathroom walls, and has been called interior wall tiles.

All-over bricks. Also known as unglazed bricks, the surface is not glazed, and the material and color of the front and back are consistent, very wear-resistant, non-slip, low water absorption, good processing performance, because its embryo body and the surface material color is the same, the brick is very beautiful.

Polished tiles. It is a kind of bright brick made by polishing the surface of the whole brick embryo, which belongs to a kind of whole body brick, inheriting the advantages of wear-resistant whole body brick, and there are many open small pores on its surface that cannot be seen by the naked eye, which plays an anti-slip role.

glazed tiles. It is a tile whose surface is glazed with high temperature and high pressure firing, this kind of tile is composed of two parts of the soil embryo and the glaze of the surface, the glaze layer is rich in color, there is no pores on the surface, and it is very smooth, so it has good stain resistance.

The types of ceramic tiles are, unglazed tiles, glazed tiles, porcelain tiles, microcrystalline stone tiles, full-body tiles, marble tiles, which are all more common types. It can be classified by the quality of the tile, it can also be classified by the composition, it can be classified by the way it is made.

Ceramic tiles mainly include long bone tiles, integrated brick walls, surface tiles, marble glazed tiles, mosaic tiles, polished tiles, and vitrified tiles. These are classified according to color and material, and the degree of wear resistance is also different.

These types are unglazed tiles, glazed tiles, porcelain tiles, microcrystalline stone tiles, and marble tiles. It can be classified by the quality of the tile, the color of the tile, the composition of the tile.

One-piece bricks, antique bricks, glazed tiles, marble, polished tiles, mosaics, vitrified tiles, these are relatively common types, most of which are classified according to the material and classified according to the use.

There are many types of ceramic tiles, and there are many ways to classify them.

From the perspective of product classification, it includes floor tiles, full-body tiles, glazed tiles, vitrified tiles, antique tiles, polished tiles, etc. From the classification of space, it includes kitchen tiles, living room tiles, dining room tiles, balcony tiles, bedroom tiles, etc. In addition, from the perspective of its role, it includes anti-slip bricks, wear-resistant bricks, anti-fouling bricks, etc.

We also want to talk about a kind of mosaic, which is a special way of being bricks, which are widely used in small indoor areas, walls and other places to make the room look beautiful and generous as a whole, I hope my answer will be helpful to you!

National Classification Standards:

The water absorption rate of porcelain tiles is less than or equal to;

The water absorption rate of stoneware is greater than or less than or equal to 3%;

The water absorption rate of fine stoneware is greater than 3% and less than or equal to 6%; Stoneware brick water absorption rate greater than 6%, less than or equal to 10%;

The water absorption rate of ceramic bricks is greater than 10%.

1. Polished tiles.

Advantages: the same batch of polished bricks basically no color difference, made of natural stone minerals, not sintered at high temperature, long-term contact to the human body is not harmful, weight, strength.

Disadvantages: polished tiles are easy to get dirty, not easy to clean, the surface is very smooth, once there is water on the ground, you have to be careful when walking, you may fall at any time.

2. Vitrified bricks.

Advantages: Vitrified bricks are bright and soft in color, no color difference, stable in performance, corrosion resistance and strong stain resistance.

Disadvantages: Vitrified bricks due to natural formation, timber time, weathering degree and so on are different, resulting in different density and strength, two years of use may lose luster, the surface is rough, difficult to clean.

3. Glazed tiles.

Advantages: The surface color and pattern of glazed bricks are rich and colorful, and the glaze part has very good stain resistance.

Disadvantages: Because the glazed tile is composed of two parts, the bottom embryo and the thin glaze layer, if the glaze layer is damaged, it will seriously affect the aesthetics and anti-fouling performance.

4. Antique bricks.

Advantages: The surface of the antique tile has a very thick glaze, good anti-fouling performance, good anti-slip performance, rich colors, and can also be used for various shapes on the tile.

Disadvantages: Because there is a layer of glaze on the surface of the antique brick, it is not easy to do deep processing treatment such as chamfering and edging, and the water absorption rate is higher than that of polished brick.

5. Whole-body bricks.

Advantages: The whole body brick is a relatively cost-effective one on the market, rich in color, affordable, with good wear resistance and anti-slip.

Disadvantages: Although the whole body brick is rich in color, the texture is still relatively simple, which cannot meet the current pursuit of personalized consumers.

Ceramic tiles should be used very widely in decoration, corresponding to different decoration spaces, ceramic tiles also have different types, ceramic tiles can be divided into glazed tiles, full-body tiles, polished tiles, vitrified tiles, microcrystalline stone and mosaics, etc., different tiles have different uses, let's take a look at the common types of tiles, choose the most suitable for their own tiles.

1. Glazed tiles

Glazed tile is a ceramic tile made of the surface layer by glazing high temperature and high pressure, and the glazed tile of the tile is composed of two parts: the soil embryo and the glazed surface layer. There are two kinds of clay materials: clay and china clay, the back of the clay fired is red, and the back of the clay fired is gray-white. The surface layer of glazed bricks can be made of various patterns and patterns, which is richer than the colors and patterns of polished bricks, but because the surface layer is glaze, the wear resistance is not as good as that of polished tiles.

2. Microcrystalline stone

Microcrystalline stone tile is a new type of ceramic tile, microcrystalline stone tile is full of translucent light, the surface is warm and moist like jade, which can well meet the requirements of high-end decoration. Microcrystalline stone is a layer of 3-5mm glass-ceramic inlaid on the surface of the ceramic vitrified stone, after secondary sintering almost integrated into one high-tech product, called glass-ceramic composite panel, simply put, the difference between microcrystalline stone and other ceramic tile products is that there is an extra layer of glass-ceramic on the surface. Microcrystalline has a thickness of 13-18mm and a gloss of 95.

IIIAll-over bricks.

The whole brick is made of rock chips pressed under high pressure, and the hardness of the surface layer after polishing can be compared with that of stone, with lower water absorption and good wear resistance. The surface of the spine sock body brick is not glazed, and the material and color of the front and back are the same. Now there are some varieties such as seepage bricks, but their styles are not as good as glazed bricks.

Most of the non-slip bricks belong to the all-over bricks.

Fourth, polished tiles

Polished brick is a kind of bright brick made by polishing the surface layer of the whole brick body, which is a kind of whole brick. Compared to full-body bricks, the surface layer of polished bricks is much smoother. Polished tiles are harder and wear-resistant, making them suitable for use in indoor spaces such as bathrooms and kitchens.

The use of seepage technology to polish the tile can make a variety of imitation stone, imitation wood grain effect.

5. Vitrified bricks

Vitrified brick is a kind of bright brick made by polishing the surface layer of the whole brick body, which is a kind of whole body brick. The ceramic brick with less water absorption is called vitrified brick, and the water absorption rate of polished brick is less than that of vitrified brick (greater than that can only be polished brick and not vitrified brick), and then the glass Yingbi intensified brick is mirror polished to obtain vitrified polished brick, because of its low water absorption, its hardness is relatively high, and it is not easy to scratch. Vitrified tile is the popular name of porcelain polished tile.

Vitrified bricks can be widely used in various projects and home floors and walls.

SixMosaics

Mosaic belongs to a type of tile, which consists of dozens of small bricks to form a relatively large brick. Because of its small size and colorful, it is often used for indoor small area ground walls and outdoor large walls and floors. The size of the mosaic is small, it can be used as some puzzles, and the decoration effect is very good.

There are ceramic mosaics, marble mosaics, and glass mosaics.

There are many materials for floor decoration, and one of them is ceramic tiles. There are many classifications of ceramic tiles, some friends may not particularly understand, today I will briefly introduce the classification of ceramic tiles, let's take a look at it.

Classification of tiles.

1. Polished tiles.

This type of brick is pressed with clay and stone powder by press, and then fired, the front and back are the same color, no glaze, after firing, the surface is polished, so that the front is smooth, very beautiful, and the back is the original appearance of the brick.

2. Vitrified bricks.

Corrugated bricks are similar to polishing, but the production requirements are higher, the press is required to be better, the density can be pressed, and the firing temperature is higher, so it can be fully porcelain. Suitable for living room, bedroom walkway, etc.

3. Glazed tiles.

As the name suggests, the surface is fired with glaze and layered, and the main body is divided into two types: clay and porcelain clay, and the back of the clay fired is red, which is called tiles. The back of the porcelain clay fired is off-white, and it is called a tile. Usually the effect of porcelain clay firing is good, so good bricks are called tiles rather than tiles.

At present, about 80% of buyers of home decoration choose this brick as the ground decoration material.

4. Antique bricks.

Antique bricks are imported from abroad and are essentially glazed porcelain tiles. Antique bricks belong to ordinary tiles, which are basically the same as magnetic sheets, the so-called antique, refers to the effect of bricks, and should be called antique effect tiles.

5. Whole-body bricks.

The whole body brick is a kind of unglazed porcelain brick, and the material and color of the front and back are the same, with good slip resistance and wear resistance. Most of the "non-slip bricks" we usually call are full-body bricks. The scope of application is widely used in halls, corridors and outdoor walkways and other floors, and is generally less used on walls.

6. Mosaic.

Mosaic is a kind of brick with a special way of being, which is generally composed of dozens of small bricks to form a relatively large brick.

It is mainly divided into ceramic mosaics, marble mosaics, and glass mosaics. Scope of applicationIt is widely used in small indoor areas, walls and outdoor walls and floors with small and colorful colors. Instructions for buying ceramic tiles.

To see if the color of the tile is pure. Mainly observe whether the color of the back of the tile is uniform and consistent. Observe whether the product has obvious quality defects such as missing sleeves, spots, cracks, shaft bubbles, and ripples.

Distinguish the color difference: sample and compare all packaged products and observe the changes of color difference.

It is necessary to observe whether the particles of the cross-section of the tile are fine. The cross-section here refers to the fracture of the tile fragment. Generally speaking, the fracture is fine, hard and brittle, and the color is the same.

Because the fine-grained tiles have a strong waterproof ability. The ceramic tiles with larger particles are easy to soak in moisture and affect the quality.

Test the waters. Consumers can pour some water on the back of the tile and pay attention to how quickly the tile absorbs water. After a few minutes, see if the marks left by the water on the front are obvious. The density of tiles that infiltrate slowly after the water disperses is large, and the marks left by the water are not obvious, so they are regarded as the top grade.

1. Full-body bricks: The surface of the full-body bricks is not glazed, and the material and color of the front and back are the same. The whole body brick is more wear-resistant, and the scope of application is widely used in halls, walkways, outdoor walkways and other venues. Generally rarely used on walls.

2. Glazed bricks: glazed bricks are glazed bricks on the surface, and the colors and patterns of glazed bricks are richer than those of polished bricks, and at the same time play a role in anti-fouling. However, due to the glazed tile surface is glazed, the wear resistance is not very good, according to the gloss of not:

Same, divided into matte and glossy, applicable to the kitchen in the bathroom, balcony, etc.

3. Polished brickPolished brick is a brick made by grinding and polishing the whole body. Compared to the roughness of the all-over brick, polished tiles are much smoother. This brick is very hard and very wear-resistant.

On the basis of the use of bleeding technology, a variety of stone-like and wood-like effects can be produced. With the exception of the bathroom and kitchen, most of the other interior spaces can be used.

4. Vitrified bricks: Vitrified bricks are made of quartz sand and soil in a certain proportion, and then polished bright but do not need to be polished. The surface is smooth and translucent, like a glass mirror, and it is the hardest type of tile.

Vitrified tiles are better than ordinary glazed tiles, polished tiles and general marble in terms of water absorption, edge straightness, bending strength, acid and alkali resistance, etc., but vitrified tiles are not perfect. The disadvantage is that the pores are exposed after polishing, and it is easy to penetrate into dust and oil. Scope of application Vitrified tiles are suitable for living rooms, bedrooms, walkways, etc.

5. Mosaic: Mosaic is a kind of brick with a special way of being. It is composed of dozens of small bricks to form a relatively large brick.

Acid-resistant, alkali-resistant, wear-resistant, impermeable, pressure-resistant, and not easy to break. The main materials are divided into ceramic, marble and glass. Because of its small size and bright colors, it is widely used in small indoor areas, walls, and outdoor walls and floors.