Pebble Floor Tiles - Ideas & Applications!

By Yaron Lavie

Pebble Floor Tiles are available in different shapes, thickness, size and texture to give a decorative, smooth and safe floor to walk on. These unique tiles are created by fixing natural pebbles by hand into a mesh background to ensure premium quality of the product. It can be used in countless interior and exterior surfaces such as kitchen counters, shower flooring, patio flooring, swimming pool surfaces, walkways, driveways and many more.

Applications for Different Colors

Application of pebble tiles as floors gives a unique style of design for any interior and exterior flooring surface at home or in the office. White pebbles for example are best suited as bathroom flooring and as a shower base flooring while black flat pebble floor tiles can be applied as wine cellar flooring.

Bathroom Decoration

Dull bathroom flooring can be easily treated with pebble floor tiles to give a natural and classic look and feel. It can also be applied as a shower pan flooring giving it a classic roman mosaic look. Another great idea is to use these pebbles as decorative borders across the bathroom's flooring.

Patio Decoration

Decorating entire patio flooring with pebble tiles is considered one of the most popular applications for three main reasons:

(1) This unique flooring method provides countless creative ideas in different textures and colors.

(2) Installation of pebbles rock flooring is considered as extremely easy do-it-yourself task - it requires no special technical skills or materials, moreover, pebbles are considered as highly durable material and require no special maintenance.

(3) While comparing the cost of pebble floor tiles with other durable products such as marble, bricks, colored concrete or hardwood, the cost of pebble floor tiles is much lower.

Get creative! - Learn more about how you can easily decorate any surface at home or in the office with pebble floor tiles and natural mosaic tile floors.

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How To Install A Pebble Tile Floor

By Laura Brzostowski

Installing a pebble tile or river rock floor is pretty much the same as installing a ceramic tile floor.

First, purchase the pebble or river rock. Most of these rocks come on a 12x12 mesh backing that actually interlocks. I put this down in my bathroom and since there was already a vinyl floor in my bathroom I left it there and installed right over the floor. The vinyl floor is a perfect moisture barrier so there is no need to pull up your linoleum or vinyl floor. My website offers pebble rock if you are interested.

When you purchase your river rock, measure first, and buy just a little more than that. Because I had to go around the toilet it was easier to have a couple of extra 12 inch meshed back tiles where I could cut off pieces of the rock to fill in spaces.

Put your adhesive down in a space of 2 feet by 2 feet. The reason you do that is because the adhesive dries quickly. After you put the adhesive down, place the 12 inch meshed river rock tile down just like you would a 12 inch ceramic tile. Since the mesh is interlocking, just follow the locking.

After you have completed your floor a decision has to be made. Do you want to add grout or not. The cool thing about river or pebble tile is that if you don't want to grout it you don't have to. You just leave it as it is.

I personally live in the Chicagoland area and I wanted my bathroom to look like a sandy beach so I added grout. What I did was add grout all the way to the tops of the rocks and when it hardened I took a hand sander and just sanded off the tops of the rocks so my bathroom floor now looks like a rocky, sandy beach.

After you are done and you have left the floor to dry you can seal it. I personally used a very high gloss sealer which makes the rocks look wet. Now, because you are working with rock, you don't have to seal it if you don't want to. This all depends on where you are installing. If you want to install in the kitchen where food may be dropped on the floor, you might want to seal it just for protection. There are many different kinds of sealers so you don't have to go high gloss if you don't want to.

After everything has dried, you now have a unique but beautiful pebble tile floor.

If you want to see a picture of my pebble tile floor, please visit http://www.hotmuralist.com

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