Commercial Kitchen Tile Requirements

Ansi recommends that ceramic tiles are spaced with a minimum 1 16 gap between them.

Commercial kitchen tile requirements.

Cementitious based grout will degrade or deteriorate when subject to the acidic and harsh chemicals of a commercial kitchen. Traditionally these joints are filled with cement based grout. The best choice for grout in commercial kitchens subjected to hot water and pressure cleaning harsh cleaners disinfecting chemicals fatty acids and no rinse cleaners is a high. This causes expansion and contraction of both the coating and the concrete substrate.

Unfortunately basic cementitious grouts deteriorate in the. The flooring in a commercial kitchen must be cable of surviving the abrupt and wide divergence in temperatures between the cold of freezers and walk in coolers and the intense heat of cooker areas dishwashing stations steam cleaning and or hot spray washing. Market demands are stricter than the standards in respect of the characteristics that noticeably affect tile fixing and use such as surface quality dimensions and resistance to specific chemical physical and particularly mechanical actions. Grout all tile in commercial kitchens must be set with grout joints between the tiles.

While in recent years grout joints have become narrow quarry tile in kitchens is commonly 1 4 inch wide.