Resurface Compounds With Interlocking Deck Tiles

The interlocking deck tiles are plastic and wood deck tiles that are made to interlock for ease of setting up. The tiles are made of an upper wood portion and the base is made from plastic with locking grooves on all the four sides of the plastic base. The deck tile usually come in 12 inches by 12 inches sizes. The tiles are laid of a flat firm surface and therefore, they are ideal for laying over your patio flooring, concrete, bricks, asphalt, old tiled surfaces or hardened and flattened bare ground.

There are various advantages of using the interlocking tiles and these advantages have been explained below.

Variety

One of the major advantages of using the interlocking deck tiles is the wide variety in shape and color. The tiles come in colorful designs that will give your outdoors a face lift. You can also get creative with different design arrangements. You can have a different color at the edges from the rest of the tiles or you can have a pattern of mixed colors that will give your compound a stylish look. The tiles also come in a variety of materials including wood, granite, slate and porcelain. If you are more environmentally sensitive, you can also get the composite interlocking deck tile made from recycled materials. This enables you to match the tiles with the rest of the house.

Easy to set up

A major advantage of these tiles is the ease of fixing them onto your compound. These tiles do not require any technical skill and are an easy do-it-yourself kind of project. The locking is intuitive and they are light and easy to set up. This is unlike wood deck tiles among other tiles that require a lot of skill and experience in making the spacing even and ensuring the arrangement is symmetric. For the interlocking once, the design is made in such a way as to ensure evenness as you lock the tiles.

Good for Drainage

The interlocking tiles are ideal for drainage in your compound as the plastic underlying finishing allows for water to drain to below the plastic and flow. This means that water paddles are not left all over your compound. The water quickly enters in the gaps between the tiles to under the plastic where it can flow easily to the drainage.

Cover Cracked Surfaces

The interlocking deck tile is ideal for covering old cracked wood deck tiles, cracked patio flooring, cracked bricks and any other worn out deck flooring. You do not need to do maintenance on the floor before applying the interlocking tiles as the tiles lock well to cover the whole ground. The locking technology enables you to have a flat surface even in areas where the cracks and wearing our has formed irregular floors. The only exemption is when the wearing is excessive and it leaves height differential in the floor. For example, where some tiles are missing leaving some form of ditches. In such cases, you will need to do some minimum resurfacing and maintenance to ensure some form of leveling.

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How to Quickly Resurface a Patio With Interlocking Deck Tiles

If your patio or terrace has begun to look rather tired, or you would simply like to give it a makeover to create an entirely new look, there's a now a way you can achieve this without any backbreaking work or enduring weeks of tradesmen traipsing through your home - and it can be achieved at a very affordable cost.

Interlocking deck tiles are modular tiles typically 12" x 12" in size which are constructed with a plastic base with locking tabs on all four sides. These tabs enable the tiles to be simply snapped together over any firm surface. So they can be laid directly over surfaces such as concrete, asphalt, old tiled surfaces, bricks and pavers and suchlike. And with suitable surface preparation, they can even be laid over bare ground.

And one of the beauties of interlocking deck tiles is that they can be quite forgiving of cracked concrete surfaces. So if your old patio is suffering from cracks and minor pitting or other damage, you don't necessarily need to firstly repair the surface unless the cracking is so bad that there is a significant height difference on either side of cracks. In most cases, you can simply lay the deck tiles directly over the top of the existing concrete.

Another advantage of interlocking deck tiles is that the plastic base allows water to drain away freely from underneath the tiles. This means that the top surface will dry out as quickly as possible and will avoid any puddles from forming on the surface which could create a slip hazard.

But the biggest advantage of using interlocking deck tiles is probably that they are so quick and easy to install and don't really require any particular skills. Anyone who has ever laid conventional tiles would be aware of the frustration in ensuring that the spacing between the tiles remains even, that grout lines remain straight and parallel and that the height of the tiles bedded into the thinset or adhesive remains consistent. With interlocking deck tiles you don't have to worry about any of this. Because of the built-in interlocking tabs, complete accuracy is assured when installing the tiles because they simply snap into place.

These days, interlocking, tiles are available in a wide range of materials. So not only can you cover your deck with wood tiles in a variety of different species so that it will look like a natural wood deck, but there are also slate deck tiles, sandstone deck tiles, composite wood deck tiles and granite deck tiles. All these will basically have the same properties as the original surfacing materials. Although it might seem somewhat odd, with the stone tiles, you don't even need to insert any grout between the tiles. As with the wood tiles, the gaps between the tiles are left open and allow water to drain away quickly from the top of the surface down between the gaps in the tiles. Stone tiles may also have a textured coating or surface treatment so they will generally exhibit excellent slip resistance.

And of course the tiles can be used on much more than just patios. They are ideal for use in apartment buildings on balconies and rooftops, especially since they can conveniently be carried out elevators or stairs and used where permanently fixed materials are prohibited. And since there is no adhesive or grouting involved, it's a practically mess free installation method with practically no tools required either - a great boon for apartment dwellers.

Maintenance requirements for interlocking deck tiles are essentially the same as the material that is used on the surface. So for example if you were using wood deck tiles, the colour of the wood will fade and turn to a silvery grey over time when fully exposed to sunlight just as with a conventional wood deck. So it's always recommended to apply a good-quality decking oil at regular intervals to reduce this rate of fading. And with composite wood and stone tiles, it is always advisable to apply a sealer to reduce water penetration and staining.

But for a quick, easy to install and convenient way of resurfacing an existing hard surface, it's hard to go past interlocking outdoor deck tiles.

Malcolm Kay is the CEO of HandyDeck Systems a supplier of DIY decking products including interlocking deck tiles. For more information see http://www.handydeck.com

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