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PRICE CHECK ON NEARLY 4 SQUARE METRES OF GLASS MOSIAC TILES FOR A SPLASHBACK, LABOUR AND MATERIAL ONLY, WHAT DO USE THINK?
 
Could only give a ballpark figure without seeing what there was that needed to be cut around and wall condition, but really, it's a days work max, plus going back the next morning to grout.

£230 inc mats.
 
fekin mate or any1 who's there. whats the standard way of fixing and cutting glass mosiac, is it just a simple normal job or do i have to use different materials. eg: grouts and addy,
 
normal white addy and grout, 3 mm trowel. wet cutter for cuts. make sure wall surface is flat and not bumpy as mosiacs will show every bump or hollow
 
Could only give a ballpark figure without seeing what there was that needed to be cut around and wall condition, but really, it's a days work max, plus going back the next morning to grout.

£230 inc mats.



make you right . 250.00 . mosics are a pain in the bum
 
if they have a backing cut them upside down.take care to protect the face from scratching on the wetbed.use a mosaic trowel so that ridges of addy cant be seen.

when you have cut your hands enough times think about wearing some gloves:lol:
 
do splash backs as a mian bit of tiling would say as fekin did £230 including trims adhesvie and grout
 
Could only give a ballpark figure without seeing what there was that needed to be cut around and wall condition, but really, it's a days work max, plus going back the next morning to grout.

£230 inc mats.
I have to disagree with Fekin a bit. I think it is more than 1 days work - assuming that it is 25mm glass mosaic. I have just done a very similar job and it took me two days. Very fiddly job, you really need to use something like mosaic-fix as it's glass and that means effectively going back the next day to grout. There are an awful lot of grout lines to keep clean! I have a montolit dry cutter and was able, in the main, to cut the tiles with this but there are times when you will need nippers. I didn't use a wet cutter at all.

I have pictures somewhere in another thread I posted yesterday if you want to have a nosey.

Grumpy
 
how do you cu mosics. i bought a mosic nippers and it wasnt a good make one but it shattered them. i had to score each one with my dry cutter ad them nip each one.

can you put them though a wet cutter with a marcrist blade.

What do you do
 
how do you cu mosics. i bought a mosic nippers and it wasnt a good make one but it shattered them. i had to score each one with my dry cutter ad them nip each one.

can you put them though a wet cutter with a marcrist blade.

What do you do
I use my montolit dry cutter! It has a breaker system suitable for cutting mosaics. If I need to cut individual tiles I use my normal rubi nippers. Didn't have a problem , though so of the tiles don't cut exactly straight sometimes. I think though that is the nature of the tiles.

Grumpy
 

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