2005-01-10 09: 39: 57 was published in Focus Decoration Home Network-Decoration General Forum-Decoration Forum.
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..... Regina recently installed a floor mat. The day she came to my house to install it, the workers forgot to bring a mat, and I didn't pay much attention to it. After a busy day, I forgot the mat. About a week later, one day I went downstairs to take out the garbage and saw the car of Gary Company parked downstairs. Manager Luo of the measurement department just got off the bus and saw that I had sent me a mat. ...
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When I first came to focus on the decoration diary, I specially recorded the brands mentioned in the diary, and then went to the market to compare and understand the recorded brands, and finally decided. Now when I write it myself, I always think from the perspective of others. I believe that the students who were at a loss like me were more eager to get valuable information from the posts. Therefore, in the process of recording, I deliberately make more relatively objective comments, mention more brands that I have relatively contacted and understood during the decoration process, and try my best to save the students who are new to the decoration and are at a loss to go to the building materials market with many brands.
Get down to business ...
Due to the variety of brand floors and fierce competition, the operation of floors is relatively the most formal, and the brand effect of floors can never be ignored. As one of the important links in home improvement, buying the brand floor produced by regular enterprises can really save the owners a lot of worries. From floor quality, to sales, to measurement, to installation, to after-sales, this series of processes need two words-"formal".
First, the quality of the wooden floor
By the way, wooden floors are divided into solid wood floors, solid wood composite floors and laminated floors.
You can understand a thing or two by looking at the name, so I won't go into details here. I have been staring at the laminate flooring from beginning to end, so the flooring I mentioned in the article refers to the laminate flooring, including the title.
The quality of laminate flooring is mainly in two aspects: formaldehyde emission and revolution.
As an ordinary consumer, when buying a floor, you should at least ask symbolically and ask the merchant to provide a quality inspection report. Although almost all the floors in the building materials market are composite national standards, you can at least choose which floor has better performance.
Soon after I came to Focus, I learned a wise saying about the floor, "Three-point floor and seven-point pavement", which shows the importance of floor pavement. One of the main reasons why I resolutely choose big brands of flooring is to count on the standardized installation of regular flooring enterprises and their standardized services from sales to installation to after-sales.
Second, the introduction of the floor experience.
(1) It's no big deal to knock on the laminate flooring and touch it. Its natural enemy is only water. No matter how good the laminate flooring is, don't use too much water to wipe it, and avoid being soaked, otherwise it will be deformed.
(2) Many students are used to putting a mat on the floor in front of the renovated bathroom, which is actually incorrect. Because the slow release of water vapor after the foot pad is wet will affect the floor below, and the floor will be easily deformed after a long time. But if there is a floor outside the bathroom, it is really necessary to put a foot pad in that area, because the water in the bathroom can be easily brought to the floor outside, so it is recommended that students put the foot pad at the door of the bathroom.
(3) Although the floor is afraid of water, I have consulted Jiarui Company. When it is clean and hygienic, you can also wipe the ground with a wringing wet mop, because the water on the floating surface will evaporate in a short time.
(4) If the floor is reserved, the reserved area shall not exceed 105% of the actual paving area on the premise of standard installation. If the paving area at home is irregular or the workers do not follow the specifications, it may exceed 105%.
(5) Don't forget to tell the manufacturer in advance that the extra floor can be returned.
(6) When sawing the floor, the dust is heavy, so workers should be required to do this in the corridor. But needless to say, the brand floor, workers will consciously go to the corridor.
(7) Before laying the floor, the ground should be clean and flat. If leveling is needed, it should be completed in advance (it is best for the flooring company to make a field trip first).
(8) Before paving the floor, the main decoration work should be completed to avoid the floor being abused. If nothing else, you will feel distressed when you read it yourself.
(9) The floor must be dry on the day of installation. I would like to remind the students who love to clean indoor hygiene that on the first day of floor laying, you must not wipe the floor with a wet mop. This will cause water seepage on the ground, and it will regain its moisture after the floor is paved.
(10) Smooth paving is generally used for paving the floor, that is, the length direction of the floor should be perpendicular to the wall where the window is located.
Third, the floor and its accessories
Students must be very concerned about the environmental protection of the floor, but when laying the floor, there are floor mats, skirting lines and layering which are installed with the floor. I wonder how many people have thought about whether the above three contents are environmentally friendly? After my death, I firmly chose Jiarui floor, which is because I took a fancy to the "360-degree" environmental protection advocated by it. Don't say it's true or not, at least people thought of it. Whether it is done well or not is another matter.
Interrupt an old question first. Although some Yalan predecessors said before, it is estimated that such a long time has passed, and a new round of decoration army has also gone into battle. Now some students must have raised the question that the color of the baseboard should always be consistent with the floor or door. Then let me answer it again. The color of the baseboard should be consistent with the color of the door. And practice has proved that as long as it is a skirting line that is not consistent with the color of the door, it doesn't look so comfortable.
Through decoration, I found that general flooring manufacturers do not produce skirting, layering and floor mats separately. When I visited my neighbor's house, I also found that the floors of each house are all kinds, but the baseboard and batten seem to be that kind.
Skirting board: almost all flooring factories use MDF. In order to reduce costs, the quality of the MDF they choose is really worrying. Inferior MDF not only has excessive formaldehyde, but also may be deformed and broken (this happened in our community).
Hierarchy: Nine times out of ten, I hope they are all the same aluminum buttons with horizontal stripes on them. Students should pay attention. This layering lasts a little longer, and the horizontal stripes will be dusty and look dirty.
Floor mats: Although there are sometimes various brands of floor mats piled up in the dustbin, if you look closely, you will find that words are printed on the back, and the material of the floor mats themselves is the same.
The reason why merchants "take shortcuts" on these accessories on the floor is to reduce costs on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is related to consumers' lack of attention to these seemingly trivial contents. Because most consumers really only care about the price, color and style of the floor.
I don't want to talk about the "360-degree" environmental protection of Jiarui floor, because people don't give it away for free, but they need to pay extra. As the saying goes, "there is no free environmental protection in the world", but I strictly controlled environmental protection from the beginning of the renovation. After weighing it, I made up my mind to spend money on environmental protection. So in the end, I spent more than 600 yuan and used the special skirting board of Jiarui Emerald, which is called "zero formaldehyde"
As for the Jia Rui Emerald Series, what is it? There is a picture at the bottom of the post. You can see the layering and the baseboard.
Fourth, the service of big brands.
As one of the centralized procurement projects in my community, Jiarui Floor is not very smooth in Fengdu Community. Before I opened the store, the neighbors who participated in the collection store had already opened it. Some neighbors pointed out some problems of Gary in the community forum (it was no big deal in the end). The post was found by Jiarui Company, and "Jiarui After-sales" and "Jiarui Engineering Department" successively replied to the neighbors. The matter was solved smoothly in a short time, and the neighbors sent another post expressing their great satisfaction.
Influenced by the sentence "three-point floor and seven-point pavement", I have always attached great importance to floor pavement. With the lessons of my neighbors, I put forward higher requirements for the flatness of the walls around the home improvement team. At the same time, I called Jia Rui company and put forward some requirements for flooring. Gary Company gave me a satisfactory answer. Everything went smoothly on the day of installation, the quality of workers was also very high, and the consumables were strictly controlled within the standard range (5%).
By the way, there is one little thing. Regina recently installed a floor mat. On the day of installation in my house, the workers forgot to bring a mat, and I didn't pay much attention to it. After a busy day, I forgot the mat. About a week later, one day I went downstairs to take out the garbage and saw the car of Gary Company parked downstairs. Manager Luo of the survey department just got off the bus and saw me say that he had sent me a summer mat.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) and two problems discussed with the person in charge of Jiarui Company
Jia Rui is a big brand, yes, but not because it is a big brand, and all links will be fine. In the process of chatting with the senior manager of Jia Rui's after-sales department, I asked the following two questions:
First of all, because of the large market share, the workers in the engineering department are too busy, so the company gives some big dealers the right to find workers to install them themselves. When I was shopping for Jiarui floor in Juyuan Building Materials City, the merchant asked me whether to let Jiarui install it or let the merchant find a worker to install it. Of course, I chose Gary without hesitation. One of my neighbors was asked to install the floor, which led to some irregular operations, and also charged the neighbor a local leveling fee from 400 yuan. So I would like to remind you that no matter what brand of floor you choose, it is best to let the manufacturer be responsible for on-site installation.
Then there is the problem of foundation treatment. It takes almost a day to lay the floor. On the day when workers enter the site, it takes almost half a day to do foundation treatment. According to the workers, the floor of my house is better than other floors in the community. The treated dust on the ground made the room smoky, and then began to lay the floor. It is conceivable that there is no thick layer of dust on the floor after paving, and the whole feeling is very dirty. I suggested to Mr. Gao at that time, why not separate the ground treatment from the floor paving. Mr. Gao explained that for workers, the cost of one more trip will increase. This explanation can only be reluctantly accepted by consumers.
Sixth, the focus of netizens' experience of the floor:
Assisi recommended: Four-in-one composite floor (the color suits your mind). Wang Di's solid wood composite has a special price of 98 yuan/square meter, but the color difference is large; Four-in-one reinforced composite crystal surface can talk about 62 pieces, and the relief surface can talk about 68 yuan, but it seems that it can be downloaded.
Assisi reminds: When gluing the floor, consider spreading the glue all over the edges until the glue overflows from the joints when the floor is closed. You can't just put two points at both ends of the board. JS explained that it is not necessary to do this for the "locked" floor, but a little glue is enough.
Unnamed suggestion: Montblanc composite flooring classic series.
Ou Dian, the installation reputation is good, the floor installation is the key, the installation is not good, and it will swell up one by one in a short time, so when I take a fancy to a brand, I will focus on the reputation of the brand when I install it.
Worry-free reminder: when installing the floor, make sure that the buckle is directly below the door, and pay attention to the distance between the door and the ground.
Bingbing 0927 recommended: Jiarui floor (big brand service is obviously in place).
Yaoyu recommended: Montblanc Wild Maple Series of Red Star Macalline in Yuegezhuang.
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* * * * "Made in Tangliang" (1) The strategy for ordinary consumers to buy ceramic tiles * * * *
2005-01-0414: 55: 42 was published in Focus Decoration Home Network-Decoration General Forum-Decoration Forum.
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..... When I first bought Meisheng bricks in the warehouse, the young man in the shopping guide said that Meisheng is a brand brick, but to be honest, it may be that I am relatively rare and strange. I have never heard of this brand before. At first, I only knew what a group of celebrities were made of tiles: Kelpolo, Nobel Prize, Mona Lisa, Romario, Venus, Athena ... Look, I didn't even let God go, and I really put these businesses. ...
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As for tiles, I couldn't put down my pen when I was dead. I wrote so much at once. After all, it is an important item that must be purchased for home decoration, so it doesn't hurt to write more. Here I will talk about it from four aspects:
First, how to choose tiles
Students who have been diving in Focus Network for some time mostly go to the building materials market for brand bricks. The advantage is that the quality can be basically guaranteed, but at the expense of rice in their pockets. In fact, although some tiles are not well-known, their quality is still hard. For example, the Meisheng floor tile used in my home, think about it. Generally, tiles of more than 20 yuan per square meter cannot be easily bought, but not all tiles of 20 yuan are of poor quality. Through appraisal, Mei Sheng is a good brick. About how to choose tiles, I can think of the following seven aspects:
1, to see if the appearance of ceramic tile is straight. Imagine, if the surface and side of each tile are uneven, even the best bricklayer can't pave the whole flat effect;
2. See if there are spots, cracks, bumps, ripples, peeling and lack of glaze on the surface of ceramic tiles, and whether the dimensions are consistent;
3. Look at the pattern of the tiles. Good product design is exquisite and realistic, while poor quality ceramic tile design will have insufficient color, broken lines, dislocation and other phenomena;
4. Identify the color of the back of the tile. The back of glazed tile is red, and the back of vitrified tile should be milky white;
5. Listen to the timbre of the tiles. The method is to hold the edge of the brick in one hand and tap the brick in the other. The sound of good bricks is crisp and loud, and the sound of poor bricks is low and dull. Students who have tried to distinguish between glass and jade should think that they actually use a similar method. The difference is that glass and jade are distinguished by the sound of their own collision.
6. Look at the hardness of the tiles. To put it bluntly, bricks of the same specification are weighed in your hand. The heavier the brick, the higher its density and hardness.
7. Look at the water absorption of the back of the tile. Turn the tile over and drop some water on the back. The slower the infiltration, the denser the texture and the better the internal quality. Inferior bricks not only leak water quickly, but also the watermark will be exposed on the front when you turn the tiles over later. This is why some students use inferior wall tiles, and the original shiny brick surface looks like "10 1 Dalmatian". That is.
At this point, there are two things to add to the death resistance:
(1) As soon as some merchants heard that you wanted to test the water, they picked up the water cup and poured it on the front of the brick. If you can see water seepage from the front, is it still called a tile? ! He is not stupid, but neither are we. The correct way is: let him turn the brick over. ...
(2) There are several bricks on the market now, such as samit and Changxin (it is said that they have been discontinued), all of which are made by high-pressure technology. Not to mention the front, even the back is almost impermeable. Is the quality the best? For this reason, I once asked my bricklayer, and he said that this kind of brick is impervious and the cement is not well bonded, so he did not recommend me to buy it. It seems that everyone should be cautious when choosing, and don't go to extremes.
Second, the classification of ceramic tiles
(a) according to the scope of use. Ceramic tiles are divided into floor tiles, interior wall tiles and exterior wall tiles (for home use with terraces).
(2) Ceramic tiles can be roughly divided into glazed tiles and vitrified tiles according to the processing technology. Among them, vitrified bricks are divided into three types according to their different processes: flower infiltration, multi-tube cloth, ultrafine powder, jadeite and microcrystalline jade. Different treatment processes have different anti-pollution and water absorption. Among the above processes, the physical and chemical properties of infiltration process are the weakest, multi-tube cloth is slightly stronger than infiltration process, and ultrafine powder and jadeite (the physical and chemical properties of the two processes are similar) are stronger than multi-tube cloth. Microcrystalline jade is a new technology that has just come out in the last two years. It has the strongest physical and chemical properties, so it is called "zero penetration", but the price is really expensive.
When I was young, I was a little afraid of tigers. I once ordered an Oushennuo microcrystalline jade floor tile, which cost more than 300 yuan per square meter. After extensive consultation, some students, including Shi Mei, implicitly called it "too exaggerated!" Finally, I simply returned it. I'm dying to think about it now. It was really crazy at first! !
Third, the summary of ceramic tile experience by mold.
My predecessor Lamemi once suggested that if I wanted to save money to buy good bricks, I would go to oriental home and Haomeijia to buy special bricks. I have also been to oriental home and Haomeijia for this purpose, and I feel that the special bricks there are actually some miscellaneous brands, and the quality is very average (I tried to use water from mineral water bottles). Moreover, the selection surface is too narrow. In desperation, I still plunged into the building materials market to find it.
(1) Where can I buy ceramic tiles?
1, go to the tile warehouse to buy tiles.
The most famous ceramic tile warehouses in Beijing are He Shili River's Long Min and Fengtai Xiaojing (also known as Qilizhuang in legend, I thought Fengtai Xiaojing and Qilizhuang were two places before, but they were dragged around Xiaojing one by one, which was depressing ...) ... All kinds of brands of ceramic tiles are readily available, and almost all of them are sold in warehouses. Students can look at brands, prices and patterns in building materials supermarkets or building materials markets, and then go there to find them. Die Kang bought Roman Leo antique bricks in Long Min, He Shili.
In particular, it should be reminded that merchants who buy tiles in warehouses generally don't care about delivery, because they are only responsible for the large-scale distribution of dealers. Therefore, if you don't have a car, you'd better consider buying tiles nearby. By the way, even if you have a private car, don't treat the bus as a van easily. It's not worth repairing the car and pulling bricks. I begged Master Tang to come with me to the Shili River and get rid of Romanio.
2. Buy tiles in the home building materials market.
The reason for buying bricks at home is simple: it is convenient to return and fill bricks. Diekang bought Gao Tao and Meisheng bricks in Juyuan Building Materials City and Xianghe Hongxing Building Materials City near lishuiqiao. By the way, all my bricks are bought by the block, because in the end, bricks are often returned by the block regardless of square meters.
(2) Tile brand
When I first bought Meisheng bricks in the warehouse, the young man in the shopping guide said that Meisheng is a brand brick, but to be honest, it may be that I am relatively rare and unfamiliar, and I have never heard of it before. I only know a group of famous ceramic tile brands: Kelpolo, Nobel, Mona Lisa, Romario, Venus, Athena ... Look, I never let God go, which really convinced these businesses. Diekang once mistakenly thought that these bricks were all imported, but later he learned that almost all of them were from Guangdong. Most of these brand tiles are 60-70 yuan Yiping, and Asian, Golden Rudder, Oushennuo and other better tiles 100-200 yuan Yiping. Although the predecessors of Qin painting once said: tiles are upgraded every 100 yuan, as an ordinary consumer, it is better to keep your eyes calm. Moreover, objectively speaking, at the end of the renovation, you will find that if you choose the right tiles, you can really save a lot of money.
(3) Three kinds of wall and floor tiles selected by Deadly Resistance.
Facts have proved that buying ceramic tiles in the building materials market has a wider choice and a reasonable price than buying them in the building materials supermarket. Take Romano, Gao Tao and Meisheng as examples. Needless to say Romano, the quality of brand products is absolutely first-class. Gao Tao was once a Sino-Thai joint venture, and its COTTO sanitary ware was once popular in the building materials market. Not long ago, I saw in Yangfang instant-boiled mutton head office that the sanitary wares in the bathroom were all Ketuo. Finally, I heard that China and Thailand withdrew their stalls because of poor cooperation. Here, I pay special tribute to Meisheng tiles. The bricklayer said that this kind of tile is of good quality, and the price is more than 20 pieces per square meter, which is really good and cheap.
(4) About the waistline of ceramic tile
Now almost every family sticks tiles with waistlines, which proves that the waistlines of tiles are still very popular with consumers. This thing was not decorated in the mid-1990s. But I didn't buy a ceramic tile waistline at home, because I calculated that the ceramic tile waistline of a brick with more than ten dollars often costs hundreds of dollars a square meter. A merchant once told me very bluntly that there is no profit in the tile market now, and the waistline of tiles is a selling point for making money.
I don't know if any students agree not to buy a flat waist line like Diekang. Finally, I insisted on posting a theme wall called "Made in Tangliang" according to my own ideas. From the beginning, the bricklayer didn't want to post it. Every day he took his arm and said beautifully, "Good, good, good effect. Tiling bricks for the first time in more than ten years. " The foreman went on to say, "There is no post of Master Tang in Beijing." (Since the renovation, I have also become Master Tang, ha. ) I built my own home and used more snacks. Finally, it's really a sense of accomplishment.
(5) About color matching
The color matching of ceramic tiles should conform to the contrast color in order to produce the ideal effect. In contrast color, students should master the common sense of decoration, even if tiles are not used, they can also be used in the choice of furniture and home improvement in the later period. Contrast colors commonly used in decoration are: red and white, red and black, black and white, yellow and blue, and so on. Among them, white, as a general color, will have no problem with almost all other conventional colors. The shower area in my bathroom is made of yellow, white and blue tiles, which feels good. The yellow and blue tiles for the second bedroom walls and curtains are also good.
(6) Common sense of wall and floor tile paving
1. About dry paving and wet paving. At present, wall tiles are generally wet laid and floor tiles are dry laid. Dry paving can reduce the empty drum rate more than wet paving, but the cost of dry paving is higher than wet paving (in fact, it mainly involves a problem of sand-gravel ratio). Workers often say that wall tiles can't be laid dry, which is acceptable, but if workers suggest that floor tiles should also be laid wet, you should be careful and must protest.
2. About the size of walls and floor tiles. As far as the general apartment is concerned, the floor tile size of the bathroom is generally around 300*300mm, and the kitchen should be around 500*500mm. One of my neighbors, the floor tiles in the kitchen cost 200*200, and she used the word "annoying eyes" as soon as she entered the kitchen. By the way, you must pay attention to the anti-slip performance of floor tiles. Some neighbors really use non-slip floor tiles. It's not normal to step on it, but very, very uncomfortable! ! As for the size of wall tiles, it depends entirely on personal hobbies, ranging from mosaics to 350 wall tiles. Some students are prone to a misunderstanding that the bathroom at home is relatively small and small wall tiles should be used. In fact, a small space can be bigger with big wall tiles. Students can rest assured that they are responsible for this sentence.
3. About consumables. Unlike the floor, it is generally difficult to accurately calculate the consumption of ceramic tiles, because the factors that determine the consumption are more complicated than the floor, mainly in the following four aspects:
(1) regularity of wall and ground
The more irregular the paving surface, the more losses.
(2) Tile size
The bigger the tile, the more loss.
(3) Tile quality
The worse the quality of tiles, the more loss. (Poor quality, the greater the possibility that the bricklayer hits the brick surface when the brick is just on the wall, resulting in the fracture of the tile)
(4) Paving method
First, if the joints between non-whole bricks require the use of the edges of tiles, the loss is large (but beautiful);
Second, avoid too narrow bricks at the corner, and use two ends to intercept the loss (but beautiful);
Third, the loss of integral inclined tile laying is definitely greater than that of straight tile laying (and the effect is not necessarily beautiful).
Therefore, it is suggested that students should first determine the consumption of consumables according to the above points when buying ceramic tiles. Generally speaking, the area of purchased tiles is about 105- 1 10% of the actual paving area. It is generally impossible to buy tiles at one time, so it is more convenient to buy tiles in the nearby building materials city if you want to return them.
If your home has a regular paving area, you can also determine the tile size according to the paving area. The 18 Roman Leo floor tile laid in my porch hall is just right, realizing "0 consumables".
Fourth, the focus of netizens' experience on ceramic tiles:
As mentioned earlier, before I started home improvement, I studied hundreds of decoration diaries of dozens of predecessors, not to mention the rapid repair and refinement of White Snake, which is almost the same as her hand Xiaoqing. The following are the brands recommended by predecessors and accumulated experience, hoping to give more students who don't know much about decoration a reference:
(1) You Yalan recommended: Champion tiles (claimed to be the most satisfactory) and Guinness wall and floor tiles.
(2) astraes2002 recommended: Kyle Polo 628 series imitation marble. Booking floor tiles should be rich, and more businesses need to return.
(3) The anonymous experience of wall and floor tile paving is that the wall and floor tile of kitchen and bathroom must be soaked and painted before paving (maybe many students don't understand what it means, but I know what it means, so I ask the workers), otherwise I will hang up. Anonymity also reminds everyone: if the original balcony wall is painted with water-resistant putty, it must be removed, otherwise the bricks will fall off.
(4) Introduction to the selection of sky tiles: Pick a brick, first use a square to see if it is square, then fold two bricks together and pinch a corner to see if the brick is flat, and then put the two bricks together to see if they are the same size. Brick inspection, some merchants say that selling bricks takes into account joint loss, and then the arrival area is smaller than the purchase area. Don't be cheated. You'd better make this clear when you buy it.
(5) Suggestions on how to test the water when buying ceramic tiles: Go to Xiaojing to buy ceramic tiles, and be optimistic about Yan brand tiles. Color, pattern and color, quality and price of glaze all satisfy me. When I was about to pay the money, I remembered to do a water absorption test, so I found some water and dripped it on the back of the brick. I found water seeping in like a brick. Turn it over and look at the front. There are signs of water seepage. My heart suddenly got cold. The ten kinds of bricks originally selected here seem to be re-selected.
(6) assisi recommended: Great Roman tiles (it was said that the discount was the lowest at that time), and assisi also suggested that the sand-gravel ratio and hollowing rate should be determined with the small foreman before tiling, and asked that the hollowing phenomenon must be removed and pasted again. Assisi also suggested that the position of the smoke outlet should be changed when sticking bricks in the kitchen, otherwise the flue hose in the kitchen would be unsightly.
(7) Worrying suggestion: If the tiles are sold by pieces, whether 1 square meter can be divisible. Rong Rong's elders also have a very humane suggestion: buy some cotton for bricklayers and plug your ears when grinding bricks. Because cutting tiles is the dirtiest and noisiest, the sound is harsh when cutting and grinding tiles, and a lot of dust is produced at the same time. If careful students want to show their concern for the workers, prepare some cotton balls and give them two masks at the same time, the workers will be moved by your actions.
The above is the summary of Diekang's experience on ceramic tiles, not to mention the whole decoration. It is impossible to consider all aspects of ceramic tiles alone, so there are still many places that have not been mentioned. Welcome to add in time.