Damnable marble mosaic border tiles!

[MsCabbage]

I am having real trouble using these mosaics as a horizontal border halfway up my travertine walls.

REAL TRAVERTINE MARBLE MOSAIC BORDERS TILES ONLY £1.50 on eBay, also, Tiles, Bathroom, Home Garden (end time 13-Apr-09 1602 BST)

This border is actually in 3 parts with the grey strips being seperate to the middle part. I am having to use about a million spacers and worry about them trying to sink too far into the adhesive.

I was hoping someone could impart some stress reducing tips to help me using these evil little blighters :devil:

 

[jay]

hi seems no tradie keen to explain this one see if i can get the ball rolling tip 1 lay your larger format tiles first leaving space for border including top bottom joint (space with strait edge or tile offguts and let dry

 

[silver]

As Jay says make space for your mosaic to add after all tiles in....you can flush it off against them then when you add it.
If the mosaic grout space either side of the mosaic is suitable size 1>2mm ( Using plastic trim ....the trim section that goes behind the tiles...says homelux or ? ).......use long lengths of trim and push that part in as large horizontal spacers between lower / top tile and mosaic........then play with pegs or whatever for the verticals....The trim wont make you 2mm....its thinner than that but will be even..........I have a few lengths of L shaped trim larger size for thicker tiles ...that works well for me. On short lengths I used a 1m aluminium ruler beofre that....that was just right at 2mm thick.
Have fun...before tourettes kicks in !
Degs

 

[jay]

good we have a tradie thanks silver now you have step 1 and step 3 step 2 is optional depending on border thickness most borders are way thiner so once wall tiles set you need to back fill for the border to comeout flush with the rest ,this is how i have overcome this issue,using a piece of off cut tile make yourself a running screed (bear with me )if your borders are 6mm thick your running screed needs to be 9mm deep fill your border recess with c[b adhesive an using your running screed (which is shaped to go into recess and remove exes leaving you a more workable depth once dry apply adh and set your border its time consuming but you get a near perfect job :8:

 

[smurf21]

You could try this idea i think this is what jay was talking about,http://www.tilersforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3129&stc=1&d=1239371424

 

[MsCabbage]

Excellent advice - makes so much sense and some real sneaky stuff at well

I'll let u know how it works when I do the next bit.

 

[jay]

spot on smurf 21 pictures always better thanks