High-quality home-made tile: formulation technology, the secret of getting color marbled

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Production of paving slabs in the home - it is not only cost savings, but also the possibility of organizing a mini-production with efficiency greater than 100%. Read the article and you will learn how to open a home workshop for production of tiles unique colors, what kind of equipment and materials needed in the production.

Content:

• Premises and equipment
• Forms and materials for tiles
• Technology
• Formulation of colors of natural stone

The technology, which is discussed below - is a method of manufacturing artificial marble and other natural stone imitations, suitable for the manufacture of:

• paving slabs, paving blocks;
• tiles, panels;
• products of landscape architecture;
• Euro fences;
• stairs and banisters;
• curb and drainage.

Home workshop organization will require minor costs. When you purchase a complete set of the equipment on the secondary market estimated costs amount to 30,000 rubles. Tiles made with his own hands, will be cheaper to purchase twice.

Premises and equipment

For manufacturing of paving slab at home should:

• room of 12 m²;
• concrete mixer;
• vibration table;
• auxiliary tool;
• forms;
• expendable materials.

As a premise suitable garage, shed, any structure with walls and a roof. It is important that the room was equipped with high quality electrical wiring to connect. Inside the walls is necessary to make reliable racks for drying the finished products. Recommended shelving area - 20 m².

For the production will need two main units - a concrete mixer and vibrating table. Concrete Mixer is suitable for both types of compulsory and ordinary pear. Usually in a home production uses domestic concrete mixer, working on 220 volts. The recommended amount stirrer - 180 liters. Mixer type forced fit only with a low rotational frequency: 16 to 24 rpm.

A jogging suit absolutely any. The main function of the vibrating table - a solution in the form of a tap. Its price on the secondary market start at 5,000 rubles. If there is, you can make your own welding equipment vibration table. This requires a corner or tube, sheet metal, spring motor.

Electric motors may be used as specialized, are made for vibration testing equipment and household used for sharpening knives. The main thing that the engine speed from 1800 to 3000 per minute.

As auxiliary equipment will be required: a shovel, trowel, bucket, trough, water tank and a plasticizer, scales large and small, building a hairdryer. For drying, the tile will need a cellophane film of 6 - 10 m².

Forms and materials for tiles

Tile is cast in plastic molds, which can be bought as a used / y, as well as new ones. The cost of new forms starts from 400 rubles per square meter. meter. B / y forms can be purchased at a price of 70 rubles per 1 square meters. For the production of paving tiles with their hands is enough to buy 20 forms.

When you purchase the shape you need to know that the most practical form - is the product of PVC. They can withstand up to 150 castings. Also, you can use the form from ABS plastic. They provide a smoother surface, but their life is limited to 50-70 applications.

When you purchase the shape you need to take into account, where it will lie tiles. If it is laid in the form of a garden path, the suitable thickness of 30 or 50 mm. If the tile is laid in front of the garage, it is worth to buy forms for the tiles of at least 70 mm thick.

In the manufacture of tiles will need:

• building sand;
• gravel fractions 5-20;
• cement M400 or M500;
• softener for concrete;
• iron oxide (white, red, green, yellow, black).

All these materials are commercially available.

The technology of the solution before drying

Artificial marble or stone - is a loud name. In fact, just two mixed concrete solution dyed in different colors, and poured into molds. Curlicue, reminiscent of cut natural stone is obtained under the influence of vibration.

Production begins with the mixing of the concrete mix. In the mixer the components are placed on the basis of:

• 1 part cement;
• 2 parts sand;
• 1.5 parts of crushed stone.

The components should be weighed and the proportion of the amount of weight, and there on the volume. All components are stirred in the mixer without the addition of water for 10 minutes. After mixing the dry mixture must be selected from 10% by weight in a separate container.

Next, the mixer is poured white colorant (titanium dioxide) and the solution was mingled dry for a further 5-7 minutes. White color is added at the rate of 3% of the total weight of the mixture.

Important! White complex for dyeing and it is added in a proportion of 3% by weight of the solution. All other colors iron oxide pigments are added at the rate of 5% by weight of cement.

In the container with a selected mixture of a black dye added at the rate of 5%, but the mass of cement. For example, if the solution used in general 50 kg. cement, the selection will only 5 kg. 5% 5 kilograms of cement - is 250 grams. Consequently, the selection is added 250 g of black dye.

While white solution is mixed in a concrete mixer, black should be mixed manually in a separate container. You can use the trowel. When mixed solutions, must be added to the mixing water.

Water mixing is preparing together with the solution. For its preparation is necessary plasticizer. The desired amount of water is calculated by a special factor which is of importance 0.33. For example, if there is a kneading 50 kg of cement, these kilograms must be multiplied by a factor 0.33. 50 × 0.33 = 16.5 liters. In such a solution should be 16.5 liters of water. Next to the water softener must be added to concrete at the rate of 1% by weight of cement. Active kneading 500 grams of a plasticizer is necessary. Plasticizer stirred until complete dissolution.

After preparation of the gauging water, it is selected from 10%, and a lower portion is a container with black paint, and a large mixer. If we consider the previous example, you need to pour into the mixer 14.8 liters of mixing water, in the selection of 1.65 liters. The solution with the mixing water should be mixed in a mixer for 15 minutes. At the same time need to manually stir the black solution.

Important! Ready solution should not spread. Excess water will lead to a high number of marriages.

After stirring mixer solution with white dot and small portions laid black solution. Next, a concrete mixer is turned on and made three turns of the blades. This is necessary to obtain a uniformly colored solution with the structure of natural marble.

After the solution is prepared it must be laid in molds. forms to the requirements of one thing - they must be clean and dry. The lubricant forms are not required, as the plasticizer does not give a solution to adhere to the walls.

Ready solution was carefully placed in the mold. Take the solution you need a trowel and laying in the form of turn it to the solution lay on the surface of the untouched side. This will give a nice color structure of the product.

Further, the shape with the solution are placed on a vibrating table included. This operation can be carried out on a conveyor principle: as long as one form of vibrating on the table, it is possible to fill another. When tapped form the mixture will settle and the solution need to fill the void volume. The main thing is to prevent the effects of vibration on a tile for more than 45 seconds. This can cause color mixing and adhesion of solution to form.

Form with the finished tiles need to be laid on racks or rows on a flat platform, using as a layer of plywood sheets. Tile during drying it is necessary to cover the cellophane, and in any case not to allow the impact of the wind, or direct sunlight. Drying is carried out for three days. In cold weather, the drying is recommended to extend up to 5 days.

After drying, the finished tile should be removed from the molds. When using a plasticizer tiles out without problems. If the tile recess is difficult, it is possible to heat the building form a hairdryer. Form expand and will tile seamlessly.

Formulation of colors of natural stone

This technology makes it possible to simulate several colors of natural stone rocks.

Black marble is produced, as well as white, but only a large volume of added black colorant in a proportion of 5% by weight of cement, and a small amount of white pigment in a proportion of 3% by weight solution.

Simulated Red granite done by adding the primary color red dye, and optional black. Ratio 2 to 8 colors. Red and black paint is added in proportions of 5% by weight of cement. When mixing colors it is recommended to make a 5 speed mixers.

Slate made of main and additional yellow white. The proportions of the colored portions is 8 to 2. It is also possible to make an imitation of malachite green by connecting the main and additional white. The proportions of malachite 9 to 1. The number of revolutions at mixing cement mixer - 2.

Flight of fantasy here is not limited, and in addition to the submitted recipes, you can come up with a unique color scheme, consisting of two or more colors. The number of revolutions during mixing can range from 2 to 7. A large number of turns to make divorce more blurred colors.

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