glass

Hi all, I've recently tiled behind a cooker hob with glass tiles which all went well. However the electrician installed the cooker hood and when the two lights were turned on ( which are very close to the wall tiles ) the light just catches the edges of the glass tiles and shines through...

Hi, I am wondering if anyone would be able to help me. I am looking to buy some glass mosaics for a swimming pool project I have coming up. I have been told by various suppliers that their glass mosaics are better quality than the others however have not been able to back it up with any...

Hi all, I am a newbie and diyer. We are retiling the bathroom in our new house but are having some problems with the glass mosaic wall tiles we have. Basically, the mosaics are going to create a vertical stripe approx 20cm wide and also a splashback. My brother in law is doing the tiling, he...

Hello Been searching on the net and here. I think I have the answer but need to confirm Had our kitchen fitted and finished about 2:5 months ago. The black tiles were a bit thin, but only ones I could get is 3mm. The were fitted with square edged stainless steel trim. The tiler had to put...

I'm in the process of re-tiling my bathroom walls. The wife has bought some expensive glass mosaic tiles which she wants to have sat in top of the new wall tiles in a border fashion. How best to make sure that the glass mosaic tiles are applied correctly and dont move on the adhesive please...

Anybody heard of an adhesive (apparently popular in a certain country) that uses "glass balls" I think he said, instead of adhesive. He definitely said glass something. Might not have been 'balls' per se. lol Wondering if A) you've ever heard of it B) if you have, you've ever used it and C) if...

I us my angle grinder for a lot of shaping but it is a bit aggressive sometimes so I was looking at getting a variable speed one has any one got any recommendations for a good but inexpensive variable speed angle grinder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOgr9mtdTcs&feature=plcp

Hello fellow tilers, Can anybody please tell me what they have found to be their best method for removing a glass splashback, as my customers now require ceramic tile splashback instead, i presume it has been siliconed on. Many thanks Steve

Hi, I am trying to track down the supplier of glass tiles that were stocked by B & Q until very recently (at least last autumn). We moved house recently and the kitchen of our new home has some of these tiles but the former owners cracked one during the move. The problem is that I don't know...

Hi, Am on the final straight of my wetroom project! The wetroom is fairly small (2.5x2.0m) and there is a bath fairly close to the shower area, so I am expecting the bath is going to be splashed by water when taking a shower. I want to fit glass panels to the side and end of the bath and...

I'v a job coming up with some big glass tiles 900x300mm. I'v never had to cut glass tiles before, what would be the best way to cut these, wetsaw or breaker???

Hi.. Any tips would be welcome on how to cut hand made 4" glass tiles without them shattering and what's the best method of drilling couple of holes .

I'm tiling my bathroom, which is in a corner of the house with dry lining on the two outside walls. The plan is to tile all the walls floor to ceiling with white tiles (6mm thick), with a strip of glass mosaic (4mm thick) a little below eye level. As a result of some uneven plaster, and a 1 mm...

Sent a customer down to the local Tile Giant to look at their Splashbacks, 600mm x 750mm roughly. They were looking at the limegreen one & were told by T/G staff that they have had issues with this particular colour, there is a chemical reaction happening & the adhesive is turning the green...

Hi all, Error made and thought I'd share. Had to fit a 750 x 600 glass splash back behind an Aga. Now the wall was pretty battered and the flue was very much in the way. Decided to put the adhesive on the Glass back, found out it had just been spray painted black and using all I knew, ran a...

Hi, I am tiling a shower cubicle and am a bit of a novice - certainly with glass tiles as I have not had to use these before! A few questions if I may......... Am I correct in thinking that it is best to tile the boards in their entirety bfore fitting the cubicle or is it best to fit the...

doing a job next week house has only glass spashback from cooker up to hood, she wants all the rest of the walls tiles from units down to worktops keeping the glass slashback. My question is when the tiles meet the glass would you grout or would you Silicon ? many thanks in advance :smilewinkgrin:

hi can anyone recommend shower screen glass treatment to prevent build up of limescale and soap. seen showerguard and wondered if anyone has used it? thankyou

help!!!! can i cut glass mosiac tiles with an angle grinder? If so what blade should i use?

Some background first, then my question.... The designer's plans for this bathroom called for a wavy soffit over the shower. The designer gave me the dimensions for the curves, I figured out the radii and the length of the curves, and then we built this in the shop and installed it. We then...