Green Slate Tile

Item Name:  Green Slate Tile

How to install the slate tile? Installing Your Natural Slate Floor

While Slate Floor Tile Adhesive can be used to anchor the floor, some pros recommend using a latex-Portland cement mortar (thinset) mixed with acrylic instead of water. Using a trowel with 1/4-inch notches, spread a bed of mortar evenly over a 2-by-3-foot area. Then reposition the tiles from the walls inward.

Spread thinset on the floor starting at a far corner so you can back out of the room as your proceed. Spread just enough area so you can reach over it to place the slate. Spread a good amount of thinset on the floor. Adding or taking away thinset will ensure that all the tiles are evenly set.

Prime The Floor

Now you have removed all debris & you have prepared the floor to install slate flooring, the first job is to prime your floor, apply an Acrylic Bonding Agent with a small sponge roller to Wood, Asphalt, Concrete, walls, porous plaster or plasterboard.

Find The Centre

Once the bonding agent has dried the next step is to find the centre focal point of the room, to do this find the centre of each wall & join opposite axis A&B, C&D by snapping a chalk line from opposing sides.

Where the 2 lines meet in the centre of the room or centre focal point, this is the starting point at which to begin your slate flooring installation.

Laying The First Tile

Begin by mixing half a bag of adhesive (around 10kg) with either a drill & paddle mixer which is much easier than mixing adhesive with a mixing stick.

PLEASE NOTE

Once mixed, NEVER add water to adhesive once it starts to set or go hard, it can lose its adhesion or not set hard if more water is added.

Next is to lay a template around the cross axis of your centre point, apply adhesive to the area to be tiled using your notched trowel, spreading adhesive away from the centre point while avoiding your chalk lines. It is important that you take your time at this stage as the rest of the floor will follow this centre focal point, then apply a skim coat to the back of the first tile, the skim coat on the back of the tile ensures that the tile height will match up, some natural slates have slight variation in thickness & this skim coat acts as a cushion to level the tiles easily, press the tile firmly in to place & do the same for the following tiles around the centre focal point.

Use your small trowel to score the adhesive around the edges of the placed tiles, this “cutting back” prevents adhesive from oozing up between the joints.

PLEASE NOTE

China Slate Tiles are precision cut so you can easily get away with a 4-5mm grout joint for much tighter grout lines, this gives a modern, contemporary feel to your floor & looks much neater.

Is slate tile slippery?

Also, slate's non-slippery, cleft surface and hardness provide a durable, attractive flooring option. Found throughout the world, slate is a metamorphic rock formed mainly from layers of shale subject to intense heat and movement pressure.

 

1, What is your time of making samples?
Usually we will take 1~3 days to make the samples.

2, What is your delivery time?
The time of delivery is 30-35 days after manufacturing begins.

3, What is the shipping port?
We ship the goods via Xiamen, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Qingdao port.

4,What are your payment terms?
We accept 30% deposit, balance should be paid before delivery.

5, What is the location of your company?
Our company was established in 1980 in the beautiful coastal city of Xiamen, which locates in one of the biggest granite material and production base and equipped with one of the biggest container ports in China.

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