Familiar And Unfamiliar Sidewalk Tile: Paving.

Even the ancient Romans and Greeks used stones to pave roads and build buildings for various purposes. In ancient times people with might and main used the useful properties of this unique building material, namely strength practicality, ergonomics and durability.

In the beginning, the stones were laid unprocessed, a little later it was started to be sanded and subjected to other kinds of processing, so the world became acquainted with paving stones, which reached to our times. In our time, the use of stone as a building material remains no less relevant and in demand, while the scale of application of this building material has grown substantially, and it has undergone slight changes in shape.

But considering the moment that we live in the age of development of new high technologies and developed scientific and technical progress, cheaper but lighter building materials appeared in the modern market in the form of a concrete paving stone that is commonly called "paving slab". Today it is very popular to perform pavement tiling for garden paths, footpaths, park areas and for decorating sidewalks and public car parks.

In order to produce paving slabs there are several technologies, casting and vibrocompression are more often used. Less often - hyperpressing. In the technological process of the vibrocompression method, it is necessary to ensure the conditions for vibration of the concrete mixture in a specially prepared form to occur and at the same time a constant pressure is applied to this solution by means of a mold. This method of vibrocompression has a very significant merit - the process can be almost completely automated, and this in turn significantly increases productivity, reduces the cost of production and allows the production of tiles in many different colors.

Sidewalk tiles, manufactured with this method, are durable and reliable in operation, have high abrasion resistance, resistance to water and temperature changes, all thanks to the special steaming operation. Manufacturers, as a rule, determine the life of this tile for almost twenty-five years, which is why it is so popular with the installation of sidewalks. But an important role in determining the service life of any tile manufactured by any method is its competent and correct styling, which requires the correct preparation of the foundation or foundation.