mosaic tile advice

[John the tile]

hello

im tiling a bathroom with 250-330mm white tiles

the customer wants one thin strip of black mosaics put onto the wall in between the white tiles, floor to ceiling, central of the wall.

can i use the same adhesive that im using for the tiles. Im using mapei bagged non flexible addy.

any other info i should i know about putting these mosaics in, because they have only just sprung this on me.

thanks

[CJ CERAMICS]

what thickness are the mosaics and the white tiles. i only ask as a recent customer sprung mosiacs on me which were only 3mm thick and the tiles were 10mm thick.

[bighen]

Hi golddigger

Run your main tiles first with the gap for the mosaics

Then bed your addy for the mosaics in the gap with a scraper, allowing for the thickness of the mosaic. you can then set the mosaic pushing into place with either an epoxy float or something flat to level the mosaics to the same plane as the surrounding tiles.

I would use a flexible addy. Always use it as your hedging most of your bets

[Fekin]

If the mosaics are a lot thinner than the field tiles you can always get a few cheap thin tiles to cut into strips and add them to the back of the mosaics to even them all out if needed.

[CJ CERAMICS]

i cemented 6mm plasterboard cut to size to the existing plasterboard.worked well.

[John the tile]

thanks guys.


why must i use flexi addy, ive got non flexi now so its to late. is that ok?

[pete f]

the non flex addy will be ok

[Dave]

what is the addy..? name..

And what is the mosaic made of..?

[obobsmith]

what is the addy..? name..

And what is the mosaic made of..?

And what is the substrate, non flex for ceramic on concrete flexi for anything else !!

[John the tile]

the substrate is gypsum plaster and plasterboard,

the mosaics are made of glass, different colours?

the tiles are 8mm thich and the mosaics are probably half as thin.

the addy is mapei rapid set grey, from tile giant

so are we sure im ok with non-flexy addy as ive already done most of the walls?? as someone said something about concrete substrates?

ta

[whitebeam]

I would have used a flexible addy or something that had a polymer in it, you will need a spf for the glass mosaic. Did you prime the walls, are your grout joints going to be white or a dark colour.

[Dave]

You need to switch your adhesive to mapei P10....

[John the tile]

oh no this is stress i dont need.

I primed the walls using primer g, used it neat.


Mapei p10 -- where can i get this from?

cant i just use the bagged stuff ive got already?? im there in the morning.


thr grouts gona be white -- what is spf.

[Dave]

You cannot stick glass tiles on with a non-modifed adhesive.....

SPF( single-part-flexible)

You can use single part flexible for main feild tiles but you need a one suitable for glass as well for the mosaics..Change your adhesive to white..

Tile giant should sell this..

[whitebeam]

Single part flexible, the grout joints will have to be very clean as your using white with a grey adhesive, primer g is spot on. Mapei p10, it's whats available in your area but good for glass mosaic. For glass mosaic use a white adhesive

[John the tile]

thanks folks,

i would just like to know when non -flexible adhesive should be used.?

tile giant recocmened this mapei stuff cus it says for ceramics on the bag. ??

the mosaic are being cut into 2.5inch strips, (3mosaics wide). Im gona have to get some WHITE flexible from elsewhere because tile giant doesnt open till 9 and im off now.

laters

[jay]

no tanking

[jay]

no tanking