Mosaic trouble

[grouty0]

Hi guys,

ah well as you can guess i have a spot of bother with my mosaic tiles. They are the small ones on a plastic backing sheet. I am only trying to do a splashback and a shelf in my downstairs toilet but i am having a nightmare. How on earth do you guys get the mosaics on the wall and get them to stay where you want them. My mosaics are slipping down the wall and even though i have tried spacers and even small nails it looks crap. Some gaps are so small between the mosaics that you cant even get a spacer between them. I am using mosaic fix which topps tiles gave me and i think it is the right adhesive just a nightmare to get the tiles to stay in the right place. I have a baton at the bottom of the mosaics across the wall as well. HELP.:mad2:

 

[Billy Hunt]

Grouty is your adhesive mixed too wet?Mosaic fix is the dogs for that tile,Shouldn;t need spacers to be honest

 

[doug boardley]

have you tried smoothing them on with a grout float? also what size notched trowel are you using/

 

[Bathfix Bob]

It takes a brave DIY'er to tackle mosaics, as you have found they are very difficult and fiddly!

 

[grouty0]

I am using a 4mm round notched sreader. I did push them on with a flat plasterers trowel and that was quite good just the tiles slipping. My new idea is panel pins at the top of the sheet holding them in place so that they don't slip. My adhesive seemed fine. well to me it did it was fairly firm and at first i thought it may be too dry but obviously not.

 

[grouty0]

Well as it is at the moment i am putting my tools away and going to go and get some beer then watch england play. Maybe they will slip as well and lose?

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

you are not mixing your adhesive stiff enough , it should hold them without slip ,you have a good adhesive there mate!!

 

[grouty0]

Ok lads thanks a lot. I will mix up a stiffer batch tomorrow and have another go.