Help!: mosiac border on aquapanel board

[nelson]

Hi everyone.Hope you can help, I'm tiling a shower enclosure next week - its a small space with three sides to tile.I'll be using plain white tiles 20x25 and i'd like a mosiac border half way up to split up all the white.Thing is, its all aquaboard i'm going on to and wondering how do I do border.If i leave the gap and then put baton on for the rest of main field I guess i'd have to use plasterboard plugs but this would leave large holes in the board which would surely be a bad thing? or would it not matter?or is it better to tile, put the border on and then just leave it till next day and carry on? I was hoping to get it done (minus grouting) in a day.what do you think? thanks very much.

[Scott]

You could always space the border, need loads of spacers though and takes a bit of time to get it right! Or as you said you could leave it or use a bagged rapid set adhesive?

[whitebeam]

Use cut tiles to keep the spacing

[Ken Bruty]

I tend to do the bottom half of the wall in rapid set adhesive so that you can put the border on top, but making sure that it is plumb when you fix it, then when you have tiled the rest of the bottom, you can start tiling above the first bits of border that you stuck. Simples

[Alan.P]

Fix the border as I go, if it needs loads of spacers then so be it, I find it quicker that way than having to go back to it, if I do have to, then as Whitebeam says, use off-cuts to keep the field tiles in place.

[nelson]

thanks everyone, some good advice in there...if I use loads of spacers (i guess u mean one in between each and every mosaic tile) i think i can imagine they are going to shift around and push too far in etc. and be getting in a right state! i'm considering using a solid tile border and not mosaic so that i can tile straight up as normal, but I would then feel bad about running away from the challenge!

[nelson]

i've just looked at your photo whitebeam and that is the way to go! thanks mate

[whitebeam]

Is this your own property

[nelson]

no, someone is paying me to do it.Actually, (and this is a an interesting idea for a new thread), they haven't asked me to do it like that,I just thought it would look nice and so would just do it and hope they like it!

[nelson]

i forgot to say, i have a spare box of the mosaics someone gave me, that's why I thought i'd do it

[whitebeam]

Do the mosaic, it will happen one day where the customer wants it done that way

[michaelb4348]

Use cut tiles to keep the spacing

Was there a reason why that pillar was not centered and there is a little cut on the left? please dont think i am being funny just wondered thats all.

[whitebeam]

Was there a reason why that pillar was not centered and there is a little cut on the left? please dont think i am being funny just wondered thats all.

I did centre the tiles and the lady of the house did'nt like it said it did'nt look right, came in in the morning and the husband had taken them off.

Thats how she wanted it

I did'nt get it either

[michaelb4348]

I did centre the tiles and the lady of the house did'nt like it said it did'nt look right, came in in the morning and the husband had taken them off.

Thats how she wanted it

I did'nt get it either

Each to there own I suppose strange though centered would look much better. There the ones paying though must do as they ask

[kilty55]

hmm,,tough call the pillar i reckon it looks fine as it is,,centre a tile and you have a slither either side and centre it with a grout line no full tiles to veiw either,6 and half a dozen on that one

[jamie B]

thanks everyone, some good advice in there...if I use loads of spacers (i guess u mean one in between each and every mosaic tile) i think i can imagine they are going to shift around and push too far in etc. and be getting in a right state! i'm considering using a solid tile border and not mosaic so that i can tile straight up as normal, but I would then feel bad about running away from the challenge!

sometimes I use string to space a mosaic border..loads quicker!

[nelson]

michael, as i'm fairly green with tiling,and trying to learn, I looked at the picture whitebeam put on and my first thought was maybe the lady might be right? to tile the beam in the centre would leave two quite narrow cuts either side (with that size of tile), and then make the beam look more busy, as it were, with lines. I have always read that this should be avoided, but am I wrong? It's interesting in case I ever come up against this,because with tiling setting out,it seems that small decisions like that can obviously make the difference visually on the job.what do u think?

[Sir Ramic]

michael, as i'm fairly green with tiling,and trying to learn, I looked at the picture whitebeam put on and my first thought was maybe the lady might be right? to tile the beam in the centre would leave two quite narrow cuts either side (with that size of tile), and then make the beam look more busy, as it were, with lines. I have always read that this should be avoided, but am I wrong? It's interesting in case I ever come up against this,because with tiling setting out,it seems that small decisions like that can obviously make the difference visually on the job.what do u think?

No, you would centre it and have 2 large cuts .

[nelson]

sir ramic, you mean cut down the size of the main tile to get the two larger cuts either side?

[Sir Ramic]

sir ramic, you mean cut down the size of the main tile to get the two larger cuts either side?

Yes, thats what I would have done.