dust pressed or encaustic

[lucius]

How do you tell the difference between encaustic and dustpressed ime trying to determine what tiles i have in a room in my house in Spain so i can restore them a bit with the right stuff.
Cheers Lucius.

 

[Spud]

I think encaustic is a liquid formed tile in either clay or cement these are often multicoloured or patterned tiles ,the dust pressed are exactly that dust sprayed into a mould and pressed to create a biscuit these are normally evenly coloured or mottled,its going to be hard to tell the difference if they have been down a while

 

[diamondtiling]

I think this is one for Timeless John or Tommyzoom, can you put some pictures up?

 

[Terry Cottar]

How do you tell the difference between encaustic and dustpressed ime trying to determine what tiles i have in a room in my house in Spain so i can restore them a bit with the right stuff.
Cheers Lucius.

Are they plain or patterned? How old is the house? Any Pics

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[lucius]

They are plain 6"by6" about half inch thick laid chequered board cream and dark red laid in lime morter the house is about 150 years old but wether the tiles are that old is any ones guess as for pics if anyone can tell me how to do it ile try as i dont have a clue.
Cheers Lucius

 

[Spud]

resize your pictures to around 800x600 pixels save them in a file on your computer, press the reply button on this thread write some content then press the white bar button on the screen that says" manage attachments " a new window will open and the tf server will allow you to double click on the file you want and then hit the upload file button your picture will then be attached to your thread much the same as attaching a file to an e-mail give it a try it took me a while to suss it out good luck

 

[White Room]

I tried that but no window opens on the Manage attachments

 

[lucius]

Cheers Gary ile try the weekend.
Lucius.

 

[lucius]

Tried to send pics but it wont have it just comes back and says cant be done or something like that, how do you resize pics to 800*600 this might have something to do it, sorry boys never done this before aint got a clue but realy want to do this.
Lucius.

 

[frankenfurter]

They'll more than likely be spanish cement encaustics, they usually look like a sandwich when removed as they have a coloured side and a plain grey backing. Coloured white cement is poured into a mould as slurry then backed up with dry cement and pressed with about 4000 psi until firm and left to cure for around 30 days.

Very different from the British victorian encaustics tiles which are made from either plastic clay (early victorian) or pressed semi-dry clay dust (later victorian)

 

[lucius]

Cheers Frank, reckon your right as they are not uncommon in the houses where i live, its a medieval town.Ive only seen about 4 differrent types of these tile here so whether there was different factories making each style or one making them all i dont know unfortunately they normaly get discarded during renovation as old Spanish town houses consist of many small rooms so when they are bought for renovation most people knock walls down to open the house up so even if the same tile has been used from room to room once the wall has been pulled down the pattern cant be pieced in.Any ideas on cleaning them up?
Lucius.

 

[doug boardley]

I always find Wikipedia a great ( but not as great as TF!) source of info
Encaustic tile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[frankenfurter]

I always find Wikipedia a great ( but not as great as TF!) source of info
Encaustic tile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes they're our Victorian type encaustics with inlaid clay, most other countries of the world produce cement encaustic tiles. Cement tiles are really nice but highly sensitive to acids and high alkaline cleaners unless of course you want to change the colour of the tiles.