Mosaics :/ Getting mosaic border flush with tiles

[JP Tiling]

We have got a scheme coming up whereby we need to install a mosaic band in between some 11mm think ceramics.......guess whats coming up.......

Has anybody got any suggestions as to the best (cheapest) solution to ensuring the detail is flush on completion. The client is going to be looking at this with a magnifying glass, so anybody who has experienced the pain of trying to do this, and has got some ideas, let me know!!

JP

 

[Rookery]

Depending on the thickness of the mosaics, I'd fix a strip of backer board to the wall and fix the mosaics to that. The dog tooth method is a bit cheaper but takes longer and is messy. Well it is when I do it!

 

[hmtiling]

Dog tooth

 

[JP Tiling]

Cheers! Dog tooth is definitely the cheapest but as its only a thin band I think the mess will out weigh the finish. As it is a repetitive finish to 60 bathrooms I was hoping for a better solution. Backer boards is the straight forward option but that might hurt my pocket a bit!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Stiffen the strips up on a plastic backing sheet and just place in the adhesive.
6mm strips of wedi or Hardi.
Dog tooth.
About it!

 

[Stef]

If you've enough space I would glue the mosaics onto strips of thermal board then stick the strips to the wall.
I've done it a few times & leaves a good flush finish.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

How wide is the is the moasic strip ? How thick are they ?

 

[JP Tiling]

Strips are to be 100mm and 150mm depending on the 2 areas they are going in....

I am awaiting samples but they are saying mosaics 8mm, and tile is 11mm.....so not sure if we will have the depth for backer boards.....but then I dont believe the mosaics will be that thick!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Stone mosaics perhaps.
Stiff mix of fast set and the dog tooth method will do the job in no time.

 

[Rich Midge]

If the difference is only 3mm then wouldn't mosaic mesh make that up? Though personally I'd go dog tooth.

 

[White Room]

Dog tooth for me also....

 

[Rookery]

With such a small difference I'd use mosaic mesh as it's only 99p and a good time saver

 

[AndY mac]

Mosaic backer sheet a swipe over with rapid set = super straight stiff mosaic.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Cheers! Dog tooth is definitely the cheapest but as its only a thin band I think the mess will out weigh the finish. As it is a repetitive finish to 60 bathrooms I was hoping for a better solution. Backer boards is the straight forward option but that might hurt my pocket a bit!

Not sure how it's a messy process .
Are you aware of this method and as it's the cheapest it has to be your 1st choice and certainly the easiest.
And buy that lad a new cutter - he lost it from your van!

 

[JP Tiling]

Not sure how it's a messy process .
Are you aware of this method and as it's the cheapest it has to be your 1st choice and certainly the easiest.
And buy that lad a new cutter - he lost it from your van!

Timeless John - erm - can you explain the lost cutter comment as we are sat in a meeting talking about our lad who has had a cutter nicked from his van!!!!!!!

 

[Sean Kelly]

strips of Ditra are 3mm thick. Easy to cut and easy to stick to the wall.
or you could use Durabase(also 3mm)

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Timeless John - erm - can you explain the lost cutter comment as we are sat in a meeting talking about our lad who has had a cutter nicked from his van!!!!!!!

No !
Assumed doing deliveries it was your van.
My bad as the say in this day and age.

 

[gazmcd72]

Rapid set with a little check stick and screed out to thickness needed cheapest option