Flooring materials are selected based on factors like cost, appearance, durability, etc. Tile is a common flooring material made from stone or other hard materials. For tile flooring, a subfloor provides support, tiles are set in mortar and grout is applied between tiles. Vitrified tiles are durable and easy to maintain, with properties making them resistant to chemicals and requiring no polishing. Proper slope, soaking, cleaning, spacing and testing are important for quality tile installation. Skirting provides a finished edge and is made of the same tiles.

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.