🧱 tile and border haute couture: Step by step instructions

It is not necessary to invest capital funds in order to get a good result. Correctly say that not gods burn pots. and paving slabs too, do the aliens. For its manufacturing do not even need any special equipment, except that the vibrator. But now Irina Yurkina from Smolensk managed to do without it. Detailed description of the manufacturing process of the original tiles and border to her HouseChief useful to anyone who wants to save and efficiently pave your site.

Good afternoon! One day my husband and I decided to move out of town. We opted for the plot to sell the apartment and engaged in the construction site, first temporarily settled in a rented apartment, and then in a trailer on the site until it was ready to house. Money was not so much to afford to make full use of hired labor. So for the most part they built themselves. Skoromniy without much to say that, through our efforts, we kopeck piece of Khrushchev eventually moved to a well-maintained house of 200 sqm with a gorgeous site, a garden and outbuildings. The secret of this success only in a permanent job, find the right information and a willingness to experiment.

I could tell you about many things, but chose one episode, which can be useful to other owners of private houses. When the main construction work on the house was completed, and the court finally cleared of debris, we are thinking about it paving. Ready-made tiles in our city costs from 500 rubles per 1 m². We needed to pave about 300 m ², left a very large sum. We decided to make the tiles with their hands. Here's what came of it.

Tiles made of Chinese forms

The search for solutions began to visit hardware stores. Unfortunately, nothing I have not found suitable, so we had to appeal to the Chinese giant Aliekspress. That only is not there, I tell you! I was searching for Forms for paving slabs and I found at least fifty variants with different geometry and pattern. There were very simple, and very complex. But realistically assessing their capabilities, my husband and I decided on a simple square form with simulated wood structure.

Form looked like this: Soft plastic with a textured surface

To ready the tiles do not stick to the surface of the mold, I use ordinary cooking oil. But for this purpose and suitable drying oil, improvement or any other lubricant

Now about the material for paving. I used to mix gravel, sand and cement. Cement took the highest mark, because if we do - for centuries.

Measure out the proportions in buckets and pails, so it was convenient

To mix the components used building mixer - it completely fulfilled its value during the construction of the epic

The dry ingredients are first mixed and then water is added, ensuring consistency of the curd mass

Precondition - adding to the mixture of plasticizer. This may be the usual liquid soap

When the concrete mixture was ready, I put it in the form of

Since I do not have the vibration table as in a professional production, it was necessary to work handles. Form with the concrete need to shake and tap on the table until then, until the mixture evenly over the entire capacity rastechotsya

When the concrete is well settled in the form of a conventional surface smoothed with a spatula

After - rest day. During this time, the concrete hardens, but has not yet pick up the final fortress. After 24 hours, it can be extracted from the mold.

You just need to flip the shape and gently shake out the contents on the table

Finished tile should be left to the solar-ventilated place for a few weeks

Excellent get the tile: durable, beautiful and smooth

How can I make a tile in a conventional basin

Experience with Chinese forms navol me think: they have nothing so unusual. Neutral soft plastic. And then I turned up to hand-basin cover of plastic barrels. We had two barrel lid, and this, the inside, we did not use. From the mind - well, just a plastic, as Chinese forms.

The lid is round and quite large - and why it is not used for tiles

Filling and vibrousadki process it is no different. The same oil, the same composition and method of leveling

I must confess: I Plyushkin. Or rather, forty, who loves all unusual. And maybe then, and more. Her husband laughed at me when I took out of the rubble remarkable stones laid by beautiful saw cut branches or collect shells on the beach.

I admit that these treasures lying around for a long time, until I got to hand the bowl

I drowned my curiosities in wet concrete

Here's what happened. These circular elements I used for tracks in the garden

Concrete footings for curbs

Any type of paving has a mandatory part of: border, which does not give the tile to spread to the sides. Its peculiarity is that it is stronger dug into the ground and firmly fixed in it. We made the tiles with their hands, but what about the border?

Tile and curb Haute Couture: I Zamosc yard the envy of the neighbor — Among the remnants of building materials, we had plastic pipe. It cut into equal segments

Each piece was cut lengthwise to expand and shape can freely be removed from the workpiece

For fixing the mold during casting, and I used the usual clamps

I must say that you can use not only the plastic pipe for this purpose. Very convenient it would be to take shape as a conventional plastic bottle. From them you just need to cut the bedplate. A sharpening of the neck even easier installation of the curb.

Then all of a familiar pattern: oil lubrication and filling with concrete mixture. To it is not slipped through the tube, forms placed in buckets or boxes

After 24 hours, the clamps can be removed, the problem simplifies screwdriver

The longitudinal cross-sectional shape and diverges freely withdrawn from the column

Here, too, need a couple of weeks to fix the composition of the

These columns can be identified paving the border issue flowerbeds

In conclusion, I want to say only that the result was very good. My new neighbor frankly envied when I invited her to tea. I did not disappoint her. Why would she know that all this beauty is made here in the shed? But with you I'm happy to share this secret.

Thank you Irene for a great story. However, the process is not difficult, and all of her photos in detail and clearly describe it. We can only add that such a self-made tiles can be more and tint. Example color mixing - at this video:

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Photo: Irina Yurkina

🧱 tile and border haute couture: Step by step instructions

Tiles made of Chinese forms

How can I make a tile in a conventional basin

Concrete footings for curbs

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