Pebble Mosaic In Showertray

[M1d1]

Hi
I've been having a nightmare with this. Pulled it up again and cleaned everything for another go tomorrow.
What is the best way of doing this?
I need to bed them up to meet the floor tiles which went on with 10mm notched. Its an awkward size 800 x 950 with a central drain.

Am I best to do a build up with adhesive then do notched on that when its gone off? Cuts with grinder went fine just laying them is a nightmare.

I'm really starting to hate pebbles.

Any tips much appreciated.

 

[White Room]

What sort of depth are the pebbles....

 

[M1d1]

What sort of depth are the pebbles....

On a mat about quarter inch thick

 

[White Room]

So about 6mm, as you said build up some rapid adhesive to bring the level up to the other tiles....probably improve the flow rate towards the drain.

 

[thompsonbrown]

I would use a solid bed of adhesive for pebbles on shower former and build up adhesive just where pebbles meet floor tiles. Might give you a slightly steeper fall where outer pebbles meet floor tiles but might make your tiling slightly less stressful.

 

[Unused Account 1]

As above just buildup where the two joining

 

[M1d1]

Will give it a go this afternoon

 

[M1d1]

Its been a busy week. I got someone in to do the tray and I'm not happy. There are a couple of wide joints between the sheets and a couple of stones have already come up. Some of the joints aren't even flat.
So how rough is it to take it up, would I he risking damaging the shower tray, or should I just pull some stones up and reset them to close the gaps/level it.
Really really unimpressed. Can't be arsed to get him back to redo it, I have enough on my plate at the moment.
Any suggestions.

 

[peteablard]

Can you upload a picture?

 

[M1d1]

Will give it a go

 

[M1d1]

Here are some pics

 

[M1d1]

Anyone? Is this acceptable? Will it rubbish grouted?

 

[Italy]

yes, Will it rubbish grouted
I am sorry

 

[Italy]

shower drain is taller?
shower drain schluter should be lowered to the wire of the stones.
then if you have slope.
fix stones crooked.
ok then 🙂
google translated

 

[peteablard]

The last time I did something similar to this I had to strip a couple of inches of pebbles off all 4 sides of the sheets and stick them separately to blend the sheets together

 

[M1d1]

It has a good slope on it.
Will the joints between the stones look bad with grout as the stones on the sheet all touch each other.?
What is the procedure for getting them up without damaging the shower tray? I've got it into my head to take the lot up and start it again

 

[Old Mod]

the drain looks higher than the mosaic, as @antonio has said above,
Is that right, or is it angle of photography?
Mosaic can actually be difficult to fix into a shower former if u don't know what you're doing.
If you take a tape measure, and following the contours of the former, and measure one end it will be shorter than the same measurement taken across the centre. (Through middle of drain)
With some mosaic you need to account for this variation in width, after all the mosaic are a constant size, whereas the measurements across the former are not.
This where the art of opening and closing of sheets comes into its own.

 

[M1d1]

its the angle of the photo

 

[One Day]

If you don't use an epoxy grout it's going to look bad rather quickly anyway!

 

[M1d1]

Right, I'll pull it up and start again

 

[hmtiling]

having used pebbles like that before i can safely say they do not tessellate well at all. they're very tighly bunched on the sheet but getting a tight joint between 2 sheets was not possible without removing the pebbles from the edge and ripping a couple of other sheets up to make it up yourself. it was not a pleasant job and just on a standard floor.

 

[M1d1]

The annoying thing is that the other joints are generally OK

 

[Italy]

the last time I unplugged all the stones from the grid.

 

[Flintstone]

They are a nightmare these pebble sheets, I usually offer a sheet up to the next one and if there needs to be any tweaked I pull them off the backing and just tweak a bit to close the gaps