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A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries.
A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern. Some special kinds include regular tilings with regular polygonal tiles all of the same shape, and semiregular tilings with regular tiles of more than one shape and with every corner identically arranged. The patterns formed by periodic tilings can be categorized into 17 wallpaper groups. A tiling that lacks a repeating pattern is called "non-periodic". An aperiodic tiling uses a small set of tile shapes that cannot form a repeating pattern. A tessellation of space, also known as a space filling or honeycomb, can be defined in the geometry of higher dimensions.
A real physical tessellation is a tiling made of materials such as cemented ceramic squares or hexagons. Such tilings may be decorative patterns, or may have functions such as providing durable and water-resistant pavement, floor or wall coverings. Historically, tessellations were used in Ancient Rome and in Islamic art such as in the Moroccan architecture and decorative geometric tiling of the Alhambra palace. In the twentieth century, the work of M. C. Escher often made use of tessellations, both in ordinary Euclidean geometry and in hyperbolic geometry, for artistic effect. Tessellations are sometimes employed for decorative effect in quilting. Tessellations form a class of patterns in nature, for example in the arrays of hexagonal cells found in honeycombs.
Hi Guys,
I've almost finished my first tiling job (complete bathroom) and I'm pretty pleased with it, apart from one thing - around the window.
Basically around the window is where I started laying and i made a huge mistake by thinking that the edging strips sat over the tile, not realising...
Hi, im in process of tiling a warm room for a client in black absolute marble but where the top tile meets the downward tile on the seating area ive been asked to bevel the raw corners and polish to make as shiney as the face surface.... ive done similar with travertine but never marble.... how...
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I am renovating the kitchen currently, and having stripped out the old kitchen i am left with these walls.
There was a little bit of damp plasterboard behind the sink, and ive pulled the damp bits of wall away and whats left seems pretty solid, with exception of the window sill.
The...
I’ve been asked to quote for laying a Victorian floor on the ground floor of a block of luxury flats.
I asked a few questions and have been told that this is the only way in/out of the flats. The base is concrete slab and the square meterage is approx. 7sqm including 2 steps. The customer says...
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I have a slight problem on the job I'm starting next week, It's only a 4 mtr bathroom floor ,tiles going down are granite, floor is floor boards at the min with about 1 ft of concrete at the door way, floor has little movment when I jump on it. One of the problems is that when I lay my...
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This isn't a thread I'd usually post as it sounds a bit needy. But it keeps being mentioned that the forum feels quieter than it has been in the past, and you're probably right.
Other than a plonker or two blaming the fact the forum has sponsors, most of you have hit the nail on the head. It's...
I'm not a tiler. Hope that's OK! We had a new kitchen, and the builder laid the porcelain tiles. After he'd finished (and we'd paid him), we saw the line by the living room door wasn't straight. He apologised, and offered to cut it straight with an angle grinder, but he can't get to the edges...
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Hello
Does anybody know how to clean the charcoal grout from the porcelain tiles?
Someone told me the that there are some LTP cleaning liquid that is good for that.
I googled it and there are a few different ones. Which one should I go for?
Thanks
Here are BEFORE and AFTER photos:
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Bob is a 68-year-old extremely successful and wealthy widower. He shows up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25-year-old blonde-haired woman who knocks everyone's socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm. She hangs over Bob's arm and listens intently to...
So are there any recommended products out there to repair small chips on the edges of travertine tiles. After installing, I have noticed a few have now got chips on some of the edges. Don't think they are the best quality. Haven't sealed them yet and was wondering if something like Colourfill as...
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I have been asked to quote for laying a new Carrara marble floor. Tiles will be cut from slab in to diamond shapes which will interlock with border.
no problem there but client wants the marble to be stained to make it look like it has been down for hundreds of years.
i have heard of companies...
Hello all, I'm using a wet cutter on dark brown ceramic tiles for the floor. I'm not happy with the finish, sometimes the cuts are leaving small chips to the edge. Is there a way I can avoid this? Thanks.
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The room is an "L" shape. Horizontal part of L is approx. 1600mm long by 900mm wide where the floor former and shower area is to go. The vertical part of the L is approx. 1200mm wide (but only on the floor, one of the walls angles away) and 3200mm long and is outside the wet area. It...
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I have this kitchen floor I want to tile but I an not sure how to prepare it. From the photo you will see the main are has quarry tiles that has been screeded with a self leveling compound. For the most part this is ok and intack except where the hole shown in photo is..The area behind the...
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Whilst I have never priced a job to not get it, I fear if I price high on this job I might just end up getting it!
There is just too many things going against this job!
35m2 kitchen floor, Kitchen fitter in as we speak,
600mm x 600mm pale coloured polished porcelain with transit wax,
Customer...
Hello all, just trying to work out how to lay out my tiles, in the bathroom, in a brick pattern. I have 2 walls that are 166cm wide, 1 wall 104cm wide and 1 wall that is 179cm wide, the height is 231cm and the tiles that I am using are 25 x 20cm. I can see that the 2 walls that are 166cm will...
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I have just finished tiling my kitchen (please see photo's attached) can anyone reccomend a really good white silicone that wont discolour. i have bought evo stick £15 tubes in the past and they still go black after time!....also the LTP grout sealer is there a certain method of how to apply...
Martino
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hi all
just ripping out a 1940s bathroom today, floor was tiled, got me breaker out and first one lifted no pobs,
no wonder it was stuck to vynal tiles on 20mm bitchumen.this bitchy is right the way through the ground floor,sounded hollow, so breaker again and come up in 3 ft squares, no...
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