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.