poor quality mosaic

[Aston]

your gonna have fun with them gary!! hope you have got a decent meterage price on them mate ;0)

 

[Scott]

Cant you just lay them in 'banana bond'?

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

It is nice to work with mosaics that just lay perfect, but this is not the norm.
Typically they need some tweeking to get them right.
It is handy that those particular mosaics will have the mesh soften when laid into the mortar.


Just did a lot of mosaic over the holidays and a sheet would often have a twisted piece that needed the lugs (not mesh but poly bonded lugs) cut to set it straight or a chipped one, or a casting defect, etc.
It was annoying, but needed to be done.
All the more challenging as the floor was graded to multiple drains and one doesn't want snakey groutlines over the long runs.

yes same as mate the pool i did in north yorkshire was the same you have to cut every one with a very sharp craft knife and it's a real pain, but we charge a bit more to reflect that!!

 

[Spud]

Well Gooner is right about Original style, very good company and replaced the out of square mosaic without quibblingstarted tiling the job today pictures to follow

 

[tommyzooom]

You did right Gary,to send them back. If I know Original Style they would have been top £££££££££££££

 

[MTiler]

I do pretty much the same as Gooner with wonky sheets, I dont do a mosaic job without my trusty small Wickes knives, to open out any rows/ columns that are bit off. Luckily Ive not come across a batch of really bad ones so far.

missy T

 

[The D]

i also use a Stanly to open the sheets but i am with Gary on this one they needed to go back. if you pay top cash you do not expect to have sub standard materials.

 

[Spud]

here are a few pictures , not finished yet but it will be a nice room once completed

 

[White Room]

Looking good Gary

 

[Ian]

Looking good that mate, was it fairly straight forward once you got your wonky sheets changed?

 

[Stewart]

Nice....... What colour you gonna grout it?

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Looking good Gary

 

[Spud]

Nice....... What colour you gonna grout it?

It will be Mapei ultra colour Anthracite

 

[user123]

Funnily enough I am using the very same tile on an artistic mosaic commission right now, I am very pleased the way they can be cut, nice and neat, no splintering...

 

[Scott]

It will be Mapei ultra colour Anthracite

Rather you than me 🙂 Thats gonna be a right pain!