Glass mosaic tiles

[arthurdaley]

Evening, lm after some tips on glass mosaic tiles, the tiles are 20mm sq putting them up in a shower cubicle, whats the best way to cut the tiles? and also need to drill them for the shower valve and riser fixing. Oh yes best adhesive and grout? any other tips that would help me out?
Many thanks
Duggie

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

best way to cut them is nippe them,best addyis flexi and flexi grout both white,you are prob-best to dril in the centre of four tiles or one tile out if it is just a 15mm hole

 

[arthurdaley]

Thanks for the reply,

the pipes to the valve aren't a problem, as you say tile out for each pipe, its the fixings for the valve itself, 3 fixings and looks like they are going to be right on the edge of each tile, seems lm going to have a similar problem with the fixings that hold the riser pipe. What type of drill bit should l be using?

So if l score them first they should break ok with nipper pliers? can you use a wet saw on individual tiles?

Sorry for so many questions:8:

 

[White Room]

Score with the dry cutter and use these

For straight cuts

 

[Bolter]

Score with the dry cutter and use these

For straight cuts

Is it a double handled paint brush? Or two carrots sticking out of a glass tumbler?

(cant see the pic)

 

[White Room]

There you go

 

[beanz]

Score with the dry cutter and use these

For straight cuts

I score and break em on the dry cutter to be honest, but i guess it depends what type of cutter you use.

Are they the cutters with the wheels on? I saw someone post on here about them before, but i've never actually seen them in the flesh so to speak, and have no idea how they work hehe! *EDIT* Ah! Not quite the same as the ones i saw, or maybe they just look different to how i remember them!?!?!

 

[White Room]

If a rubi ts you can't because the fixed cutting point or buy a monolit for the job

Find this type are good

 

[beanz]

Ah! They were the ones i'd seen.

 

[arthurdaley]

Cheers guys for the replies, what about drilling these little critters, is that going to be a problem?

 

[White Room]

These are the answer Drilling porcelain tiles with diamond tile drill bit granite holesaws

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Our diamond cores are the ideal product to put holes into mosaics.

They will drill perfect holes into glass (including mosaic glass) fitted or unfitted, grouted or ungrouted.

This kit contains a mix of service pipe holesaws and rawl plug 6mm & 8mm tike drill bits.

The way to use them is to make sure you push down on the yellow template (supplied)

Excuse the fact these are swimming pool mosaics. And grouted.

The technique is the same on your mosaics even in ungrouted (IE loose on the backing sheet)
Just lay the backing sheet and tiles down on a firm surface. Then push down on the drill-plate and it will lock all the loose tiles together so that you can start to drill the holes.

In the shot above you can see how easy it is to drill over the grout lines and deal with multiple tile squares. You will be able to take out sections of glass tile with ease.

The main thing to remember is that these are NOT actually drills ! (so I dont know why we call them drill bits) No these are actually GRINDERS. What they do to glass is actually grind it into dust slowly but carefully by removing or eroding the glass mm by mm. Thats why you get a chip free clean result every time.

One bonus is that you have total control over the speed of your own drill so can take things nice and slowly until you are confident

Porsadrill cores are used with your own battery hand drill


If in doubt have a little practice first but its a fairly intuitive process. You'll get it right !

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

where is the finished pic of the mosaic then 365748?:lol:

 

[Deleted member 1779]

where is the finished pic

Ha! Yes I might actually do a little project with glass mosaics just to show a pictorial sequence. As it was on Thursday I was over at Harlow Tile College and by chance Clint was cutting up glass mosaic sheets for the students. I should have done something there and then. I'm next back over there for demos on Thursday 3rd December so I'll sort out a proper pictorial sequence. It'll be good for our own website as well. Mosaics are still very popular.

 

[arthurdaley]

Bought a pair of these, they worked a treat.