Pool tiles give a sophisticated and elegant look to your swimming pool as well as they provide a lot of other advantages too. Pool tiles provide advantages like hygienic, odorless, highly resistant to bacterial growth, more durable, easy to install, water and heat resistant, varied effects, patterns and looks, aesthetic and versatile, least shade variation, cost-effective.
Types of Pool Tiles Are:
Glass Tile:
Glass tiles are very durable, and its long-lasting property reduces the need of future tile repair. Glass tiles add an immense beauty to your pool. Glass tiles are of different shapes, sizes and are found in a number of unique colors. They are used to enhance the beauty of pools from hundreds of years. These are one of the most popular tiles producing glitters because of the reflection property of the glass. It reflects the rays of the sun into the water which gives the glass tiles an elegant look and enhances the beauty of your pool. The glass tiles spark as well as gives a living effect to water as the water moves or flows.
There are many designs and patterns to install the glass tiles to your pool. The design which looks elegant and beautiful to you, can be selected to enhance the beauty of your pool. Glass tiles can be of uniform or mixed colors.
Natural Stone Tile:
There are various types of natural stone tiles used for the pool to decorate it. Natural stone tiles are slip resistant and durable, because of these features people install natural stone tiles to their pools. Natural stone tiles are used for the pavement of the pool. Replacing of the natural stone tile is easy and very cost efficient as well. Natural stone tiles can be designed according to the needs of the clients.
Ceramic Tile:
Ceramic tiles are the best option for your pool. Ceramic tiles are mainly in a square but can be of many shapes. The companies can provide you ceramic tiles with different shapes which suits to your needs. Because of the low cost and aesthetic look of the ceramic tiles, they are often used for the pool pavers. The glaze adds the durability to ceramic tiles. As a large amount of pattern and colors are available in ceramic tiles they are used for pool pavers. The ceramic tiles are used mostly for the surfaces which are moist in nature as the grout lines absorb the moisture.
How to Install Tiles
Drain pool five inches below where the tile will be placed. This pool has faded below the waterline. A tile will conceal this.
Place tile face down around pool perimeter.
Clean surface using acetone or similar solvent. Clean the area where you want to install the tiles.
Apply silicon rubber adhesive to back of the tiles. A line of adhesive should be the size of grout lines.
Attach those tiles to the pool. Ensure proper alignment of the tiles and place all the tiles firmly.
Allow tiles to set for a few minutes to a half an hour before the next step.
Then grout tiles and apply silicon rubber grout.
Fill in the space between the tiles using grout.
Remove the excess amount of grout and then clean tiles using detergent.
Wait for two days to refill the pool.
There are a lot of benefits of tiles used for the pools because these tiles are slip resistant as well as they are very low cost. The tiles come with a lot of patterns and colors used for enhancing the beauty of your pool. In a nutshell, when used effectively in a design, tile can elegantly transform an aquatic environment into a moving masterpiece.
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