Civil Engineering.

1. Building Construction
By:Hemant Jindal

2. Tile Flooring

3. Flooring
• Flooring is the general term for a permanent
covering of a floor, or for the work of installing
such a floor covering.
• Floor covering is a term to generically describe
any finish material applied over a floor
structure to provide a walking surface.
• Materials commonly called flooring
include wood flooring, vitrified tile, stone, and
various seamless chemical floor coatings.

4. Sub Floor
• The floor under the flooring is called
the subfloor.
• This provides the support for the flooring.
• The sub floor may be constructed out of
concrete as well as other building materials
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5. SELECTION OF FLOORING MATERIAL
depends upon below factors:
• Initial Cost
• Appearance
• Cleanliness
• Durability
• Sound Insulation
• Fire Resistance
• Smoothness
• Maintenance

6. Tile Flooring
A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-
wearing material such as stone, metal,
or even glass, generally used for
covering roofs, floors, walls.

7. Tile Flooring
Tiles used were vitrified tiles.
Vitrified tiles are of low porosity.
• Floor tiles were set with mortar with
ratio 1:3
• Tiles used were of 600mm*600mm
and 8mm thick.

8. Resistance to Acid & alkaline material.
Ready to use after 48hr of application.
No polishing work is required.
Easy to maintain cleanness.
Merits of Tile Flooring over Marble

10. Tile Flooring
• There should be no slope provide in
flooring in rooms.
• A slope of 4mm-5mm in 1 meter is
provided in the bathrooms and
balconies.
• Tiles should be soaked in water for
minimum 6 hours before use.

11. Tile Flooring
• Before using, tiles should be clean and
dried.
• At the Entry of the room the tiles used
be of full length.
• Spacers are provided between the tiles
to keep proper gap between them and
also to prevent the tiles from
expansion.

12. Tile Flooring
• Test for flooring is soundness test,
which is done by a rubber hammer.
• Slope in the tiles is checked by spirit
level
by placing it on the tile of the floor.

13. Tile Flooring-Skirting
• Skirting Is done to make
the proper finishing of the
flooring .
• Skirting is commonly called
as DIDO.
• Skirting was of
600*100mm.
• Skirting is used from same
tile as used in the flooring.

15. Grouting
• Grouting is done after 24 hours of
placement of tiles.
• Grouting is done with white cement,
some colours may be used in it.
• Grouting provides strength and better
finish to the tiles.
• Floor should be washed properly after
1 day for better surface finishing.

16. Grouting

17. Wall Tiling
• The tiles used for walls are of dimension
150*150mm and 8mm thick.
• Wall tile was used with mortar 1:3.
• Spacers are provided between the tiles to
make proper gap between the adjacent tiles.
• Wall should be cured properly before tiling.
• Use cement water thin paste before tiling.
• Tiling should be done from bottom to top.