I used mosaic spacer a few weeks back putting boarder all the way around a bathroom. I has 5mm glass mosaic inset between 9mm tiles, I used a 2mm thick mosaic spacer. Recon it saved me an hour and loads of stress. Saying that though the price of the spacer sheets are a rip off, 50p worth of plastic molding selling for £10 in my case. So here’s my money saving tip. How you use this stuff is by putting the addy on the wall, placing the mesh on the addy then skimming over the top, the mesh squares will now be filled, then you go over the top with your 3mm notch. To save money cut the mesh up and place it in thin strips, I did this and have enough mesh strips left to do another room, so that’s £5 max a small room rather than over £10. The manufacturers of my mesh (bought from
tile Flair – cant remember the make) are cheeky enough to say place two meshes on top of each other for a 4mm spacer. Whaaat? … anyway, I have been looking around for a
standard material (maybe used for packaging or some sort of cheap hobby) that I can use as
tile spacer. This stuff should be super cheap – if it wasn’t called
tile spacer it would be called 'cheap matting' and cost a quid a square metre. I add this to the top of my ‘rip off tilers’ list, one space above ‘square buckets we call washboys’ …. So yooze guys – anyone spotted any cheap matting about 2 ~ 3mm thick (white plastic is perfect) we can buy in bulk from Tesco’s or somewhere?
Oh, second hot tip is to tap panel pins in-between the mosaic pieces to hold up under the mesh, the spacers don’t give enough real estate to hold onto so the mosaics wants to slip down, a panel pin every 300mm or so does the job and is easy to remove.
