The hydraulics again.
Lately we see that when carrying out our projects, clients like us to incorporate aesthetic trends from the past but in a current version. Fashions come and go and this is how we see it year after year when our mothers or grandmothers tell us "I had those pants when..." or "we had that lamp in the town dining room in the year...". All this comes because the vintage look of hydraulic flooring seems to have been strongly reborn.
The hydraulic floor.-
What is a hydraulic tile? Although the name may seem very technical to us, floors with hydraulic mosaics are actually traditional floors that experienced their maximum splendor during modernism at the hands of Gaudí, Domenechi Montaner or Josep Puig i Cadaflach, who incorporated this type of flooring in some of their buildings. more emblematic. Today is the day that it can be found in many apartments in Barcelona giving added value to those homes.
Traditional hydraulic tiles appear in France in the mid-19th century. They are decorative pigmented cement tiles that owe their name to the fact that in the production process metal molds were used to apply the colors that are fixed to the cement base, using for this a hydraulic press.
The new ceramic production technologies have made it possible to recreate the artisanal touch of their designs, the vividness of their color, sometimes even imperfections reproducing areas of wear, and always with the possibility of being able to design other types of floors, much more modern with touches contemporary and current.
Its manufacturing process guarantees a very resistant, more economical material, which can even be used outdoors, of great beauty and easy maintenance. We say easy maintenance because conventional hydraulics are porous and must be treated with special products. These drawbacks do not exist with ceramic floors due to their high resistance to wear and tear and can be cleaned with products that can be found in any supermarket.
The most common thing is to see hydraulic as flooring, but it can also be installed without problems on walls, even in bathrooms and kitchens, which with conventional hydraulic is not advisable to use in humid areas since it deteriorates more quickly. However, if you like this effect, opt for hydraulic ceramic, you will not have any problems.
Another advantage of ceramic compared to hydraulic tiles is that each tile is unique, where the length, width, offset, straightness of the side and planimetry make its installation more difficult. This does not happen because it is completely industrialized.
Finally, I would like to say that using this type of flooring we find magical results, since its colors and richness in drawing patterns make it so that in the end everything fits into a composition of different styles, creating a cosmopolitan atmosphere with a certain timeless touch and the day. Tomorrow you will tell your daughters or grandchildren "I had that soil when I lived in...."
