Installing Glass Tile Sheets

How to install a glass tile backsplash step 1.

Installing glass tile sheets.

Then make straight parallel lines in the mortar by pressing into it with a notched trowel to help the tiles stick to the wall. Mesh backing lets you install the tiny glass tiles as a single sheet 1. Don t be tempted to substitute a rubber mallet for the hammer when setting glass tile. Place the mosaic sheets along the wall.

Examine your mosaic sheets. Do not delay this step or your thinset will begin to dry and the tiles will not fully adhere to the surface. Sheets should be placed onto the newly trowelled thinset on your surface immediately. To avoid scratching the glass tiles grout with unsanded grout.

Set your sheets into the thinset layer spread on your substrate taking care to square the sheets as you go. A good layout minimizes the number of cuts. Lay out the mosaic tiles sheets either right on the area you want to install them or in an area of equal size. Apply the grout with a float gliding over the tiles at a 45 degree angle.

Follow the lines you made when the tiles were dry fit to the wall. Slightly rock the sheet up and down perpendicular to the trowel lines to collapse the ridges and help the tile settle into place. How to install mosaic tile sheets. Start by spreading a thin even layer of thinset on the wall.

Its bounciness will cause the tile to shift out of place on the wall. Do the same at all corners where tile sheets meet. If your mosaics are face mounted you may not be able to see what the mosaics look like because the only visible. Apply painter s tape along the back edge of the countertop to protect the granite.

To install glass tiles start by spreading the mortar on the wall in a 3 inch by 3 inch space. Add tile spacers for help keeping the tile pieces lined up. Comb the thinset in one direction using a notched trowel with the recommended size teeth. Dry fit the tile sheets in the space to determine the best layout.