Facing with marble

Marble is able to surprise with its aesthetics, strength and variety of beautiful colors. To choose more stylish, beautiful and unique building finishing material for external or internal walls of the room is very difficult. It is wonderfully suitable for the production of countertops , flooring, decoration of fireplaces , window sill, doorway, staircase marches.

Technology of facing walls with marble

There is a method of attaching marble without the use of adhesives, wet method and combined. In the first case, you can not do without special fasteners in the form of a grid and hooks, with which the plates are installed in place. With a combined method, the voids between the material are filled with solutions. Here we will touch upon the wet method for wall covering with natural marble, describing the main stages of the work.

How to decorate the walls and the floor with marble tiles:

  1. Much depends on the tasks set by the builders. For example, if slabs with a thickness of up to 30 mm are used for a marble window sill, then it is better to buy a standard tile on walls, which varies in size from 305x305x10 mm to 600x600x20 mm.
  2. Align and clean the surface, in addition to cement mortar or plaster suitable finish gypsum boards.
  3. We buy glue in the form of a white dry mixture on a high-quality cement base. If the slabs are large, then a strong solution of concrete with sand is needed.
  4. Prepare according to the recipe solution, apply it to the tile and walls.
  5. Stacking of marble is carried out according to a similar technology with tiling of walls with ceramic tiles. The crosses for leveling the seam, the level, the notched trowel are used.
  6. In problem areas, you need to trim.
  7. Marble is great for niches, it is not afraid of condensation.
  8. Here in the bathroom it is good to store various small accessories, detergents and personal items.
  9. For facing with marble of a floor it is possible to use the ready cassettes put on reinforcing mesh in the form of a small mosaic.
  10. A similar decorative coating is also placed on a special mortar, which is applied to the concrete base with a spatula.
  11. In another place on the floor using a large floor tile, it all depends on the design you choose.
  12. In the end, remove the crosses and excess solution.
  13. Stitches fill the grout with the color of the tiles, we clean the room.
  14. The work on finishing the bathroom is finished, our room looks delicious.

Facing the facade and interior walls with marble can transform any house into a royal apartment or a medieval castle. Naturally, such work is worth a lot, but if your budget is able to draw such a design project, then you will get a chic result that can amaze everyone around for many decades.