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  2. Thinset - Wikipedia

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    Thinset (also called thinset mortar, thinset cement, dryset mortar, or drybond mortar) is an adhesive mortar made of cement, fine sand and a water-retaining agent such as an alkyl derivative of cellulose. [1] It is usually used to attach tile or stone to surfaces such as cement or concrete. [2] The adoption of a thinset mortar based ...

  3. Thick bed mortar - Wikipedia

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    The thick bed mortar would then be compacted and screeded (made flat and/or level) prior to installation of tile or stone. As the slurry coat dried it would bond the mortar bed to the concrete surface on which it was installed. Mortar beds were used underneath almost every tile or stone installation until the late 1950s when a chemical engineer ...

  4. Quarry tile - Wikipedia

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    Quarry tile. Quarry tile is a building material, usually to inch (13 to 19 mm) thick, made by either the extrusion process or more commonly by press forming and firing natural clay or shales. [][] Quarry tile is manufactured from clay in a manner similar to bricks. [] It is shaped from clay, and fired at a high temperature, about 2,000 °F ...

  5. Tile - Wikipedia

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    Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or other objects such as tabletops. Alternatively, tile can sometimes refer to similar units made from ...

  6. Grout - Wikipedia

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    Grout is a dense fluid that hardens upon application and is used to fill gaps or as reinforcement in existing structures. [1] Grout is generally a mixture of water, cement, and sand, and is employed in pressure grouting, embedding rebar in masonry walls, connecting sections of precast concrete, filling voids, and sealing joints such as those ...

  7. Masonry - Wikipedia

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    Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar. The term masonry can also refer to the building units (stone, brick, etc.) themselves. The common materials of masonry construction are bricks and building stone, rocks ...

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