{"id":4364,"date":"2013-03-20T11:18:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:21:15","slug":"carrelage-du-sol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/carrelage-du-sol\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrelage du sol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, in other words, my new tiles that I laid when I did the work on my fireplace. Which is still unfinished, of course, so what better way to spend the time while I can’t work outside on the X-Air instead of just hanging around wasting it. I don’t know how things are done in the UK because I’ve never had floor tiles quite like these before, but the French way of doing things is to let the new tiles dry out, which I’ve done, clean them up removing any splashes of mortar or adhesive and then apply a coating to provide protection and a good shine. And the more of the coating you apply, within reason, the deeper the gloss becomes.<\/p>\n

There are various products available to assist you in this – to remove cement and mortar, to remove old polish or old damaged coatings, various types of coating depending on the tile material and finally, various products for ‘entretien’, or maintaining and looking after your tiles once you’ve done all that’s required. All I want to do for now is clean the surfaces of the tiles I’ve used on the floor and fireplace platform and then give them a couple of coats of sealer to provide the protection they need and make them shine. It was cold and showery again yesterday so I thought it was a good time to browse the shelves at Les Briconautes to see if I could find what I needed. As it happened, I didn’t need to browse for long because shortly after arriving, I asked a young lady assistant if she could help and she and one of her colleagues took me right to the shelf that I wanted.<\/p>\n

I bought two items, some cleaner (d\u00e9capant) and some coating, from the quite large selection of products that were available. I hope they are the right ones but only time will tell when I come to use them. And here they are.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what the cleaner contains, but you can see from the information on its container that it is quite corrosive so hopefully it will be effective. The coating is described as ‘longue dur\u00e9e’ (long lasting) and after cleaning the tiles off, my intention is to apply a couple of coats in the hope that the new floor tiles will then be very similar to the existing ones. Although it’ll mean missing a day working outside, I need a couple of dry days to do the work so I know that I won’t get any rainwater dripping down the chimney and with a bit of luck, I’m hoping to do the cleaning this afternoon and the coating tomorrow. Then I’ll finally be able to get my wood-burner installed. I can’t wait, it’s been a long time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or, in other words, my new tiles that I laid when I did the work on my fireplace. Which is still unfinished, of course, so what better way to spend the time while I can’t work outside on the X-Air instead of just hanging around wasting it. I don’t know how things are done in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}