I'm gonna show you how to lay mosaic. It's a more decorative form of tiling and one that
will enhance your bathroom. Here're the tools that we require. We have our safety equipment,
spacers, notch trail, the spreading adhesive, grout spreader, mosaic nippers, tile cutter,
an angle grinder with blade. We have a mixing paddle. We have the tiles. We have a container
for mixing our adhesive into with some water, our adhesive and our spirit level. I'm gonna
remove our equipment here and I will then show you how we go about mosaicing. The first
thing that we need to do is measure up. So were gonna use the center point as a reference
so that we can lay our mosaic symmetrically. From here we can take our mosaic sheets and
run them across to get an idea of how they will fit. Looks like a perfect fit. We also
need to check to see how our ledge is as far as being level. In that way we can make allowances
for when we install our mosaics. Mosaic tiles are on a sheet and they are easy to cut. Good
idea to put on some safety gloves first before we go ahead and cut them. Place the mosaic
sheets on the ledge; to get an indication as to where we need to cut the mosaics and
once we've made a mark we can proceed to cut. Simply a matter of placing the mosaic tiles
somewhere safe. In this case I'm just using the box of tiles with the cardboard. Using
a utility knife, you can just simply run that across like so to get it cut. Before I can
go any further I'll go back and continue cutting some more sheets. I don't need that many.
The next step will be to mix up our adhesive to a nice toothpaste consistency. Good idea
to put some water in the bucket first, add the adhesive and mix it up to a nice pasty
consistency.
Okay, I'm happy with that. This is the sort of consistency that we're after. Notice how
it doesn't quickly fall off the trail but it stays there quite nicely. And that's perfect
for what we need. The next step now is to simply remove the tiles that we've put there.
Trail some adhesive across and then place the mosaic tiles on top. Now, it's simply
a matter of placing the mosaic tiles that we've prepared from the center point that
we've had previously marked. With our spacer we can use the spacer as an indicator for
when we're putting our mosaic sheets together. This will give us a good idea that everything's
nice and even. This is a rubber grout trail but it's an ideal tool to use to give you
a nice flat finish. Now we're simply going to take out our level, just to have a look
to make sure that we haven't got unevenness and our mosaics are nicely placed. The reason
why we need to check this now, is that the glue is still fresh we can make some adjustments
if we need to. We're just simply going to put our mosaic tiles in the area that we need
to tile now, aligning up with the tiles that we've just installed. We are going to require
a cut here. The tile is being obstructed by this outlet, the water outlet. Mark the tile
and I'll show you how to cut the mosaic tile using the tile nippers. Simply remove the
mosaic tile, taking out tile nippers. We do need to apply a bit of pressure here to cut
the tile. I'm going to take my spirit level here and draw a vertical line. The next step
is to apply our adhesive and work from the center out. Now that we have spread our adhesive,
it's just a matter of placing your tile on the wall. Now we can take our tile that we
cut previously, and it's just simply a matter of placing it. Now we can continue on.
The next step with our tiling mosaics here is to cut around or locate [sp] where the
cuts will be for our mosaic sheets. And the best way to do that is to simply place the
tile alongside the tiling that you've just done and then just simply marking some indicators
either side, in this case this is where our mixer tap needs to be cut around. So, just
getting an idea of the height, we're transferring, marking lines here. Now I'm simply going to
take my pencil and transfer the lines that I've just marked using my spirit level. Now
I just simply need to use my angle grinder to cut out the lines here. This is our finish
result. Now what we'll do is we'll continue on, so again were just gonna apply our adhesive
and then work from the center back out. Now we're going to take our sheet, place it around
our tap carefully aligning that using our trail. We can make the adjustments. And now
finally we can put our pieces that we've cut. And now we have it, we can continue on from
here. Okay, as you can see now I've completed the mosaicing. The art of mosaicing is simply
being patient.