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Our range includes L-shaped tiles: treads/thresholds and side tiles * Where should the tiles and the grout be impregnated? - outdoors - kitchen - bathroom - fireplace wall All impregnations available on our website: ACCESSORIES / IMPREGNATIONS / FLOORS - Elkamino House Brick for stairs, brick for window sills - tiling Today, despite the advance of science in the field of building materials too and the appearance on the market of many solutions based on new, often synthetic materials, we are dealing with great interest in natural and traditional materials that have been used in construction for centuries, such as wood, stone, concrete, ceramics, etc. of the most important elements of the house in terms of function and aesthetics, are also often built or clad in natural materials. The structure of the stairs is usually described in detail in the design of the house, most often a reinforced concrete structure is used for outdoor stairs. We entrust the work itself to professionals. And already at this stage it is worth deciding which type of material the stairs will be finished with. This is linked to the thickness of the floors, which must be at the same height as the surface of the last step, so as not to create unnecessary thresholds that make walking difficult. Even though bare concrete is becoming an increasingly sought-after finishing and decorating material, bare concrete stairs give the impression of being unfinished. An interesting idea is to use bricks for outdoor stairs, but as experience shows, this solution is quite risky, ordinary ceramic building bricks are not very suitable for it, because of their technical parameters they often delaminate, crumble and undergo what is called lasing, that is, the destruction of the structure on contact with water. The same goes for old demolition bricks, even though it seems that if they have been in a wall for two hundred years they can be laid on the terrace or on the stairs and will stay there for at least another fifty years. Unfortunately, practice shows that it is often different. Like an unprotected brick, it deteriorates quickly. Good results can be obtained by using suitable maintenance products, but they are quite expensive and this type of surface has to be protected again