Tiles

Tiles

Any of various thin slabs or bent pieces of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or wall.

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float strip

Building materials; Tiles

A strip of wood about 1/4 inch thick and 1 1/4 inch wide. It is used as a guide to align mortar surfaces.

field tile

Building materials; Tiles

An area of tile covering a wall or floor. The field is bordered by tile trim.

filled

Building materials; Tiles

An expression used to indicate the filling of natural voids in stone units with cements or synthetic resins and similar materials.

bisque fire

Building materials; Tiles

The process of maturing an unfired ceramic body and its glaze in one firing operation.

The flat trowel is used in conjunction with the hawk for the transferring of mortar from the mortarboard to the wall or to other vertical surfaces. It is frequently used for spreading pure cement on ...

extruded tile

Building materials; Tiles

A tile or trim unit that is formed when plastic clay mixtures are forced through a pug mill opening (die) of suitable configuration, resulting in a continuous ribbon of formed clay. A wire cutter or ...

epoxy mortar

Building materials; Tiles

A two-part mortar system consisting of epoxy resin and epoxy hardener used to bond tile to back-up material where chemical resistance of high bond strength is a consideration.