Hello!
I have never tiled with mosaic before and I am now thinking of tackling it in the kitchen above the sink, but there is a small (I hope) problem there, because the faucet is mounted on the wall and not on the sink!
So my question is how do I handle this. Do I start from one side and do the best I can when I reach the faucet, or are there any good suggestions on how to solve this?
Hoping for an answer.
I have never tiled with mosaic before and I am now thinking of tackling it in the kitchen above the sink, but there is a small (I hope) problem there, because the faucet is mounted on the wall and not on the sink!
So my question is how do I handle this. Do I start from one side and do the best I can when I reach the faucet, or are there any good suggestions on how to solve this?Hoping for an answer.
Dismantle the tap, and then you can remove the cover plates.
Sure, but when you've removed the mixer (after you've turned off the water!!), the escutcheons remain (which are threaded onto the connection nipples), you can't remove them without taking off the entire nipple, and that's where you'll need a hex key in size 12-14 or something like that (= substantial tool), it's not a size that exists in normal hex key sets.
Oh oh oh!! In THAT way. Now I get it. As I've said, I've never done this since I've lived in an apartment my whole life and others take care of these things, but now that I've just bought a house, I have to be a bit of a jack-of-all-trades myself! Fun, I think! ;D
In THAT way. Now I get it. As I've said, I've never done this since I've lived in an apartment my whole life and others take care of these things, but now that I've just bought a house, I have to be a bit of a jack-of-all-trades myself! Fun, I think! ;DHello,
It's great that you're going to install mosaic, it's easy and turns out beautifully! I installed mosaic in an apartment I lived in, and the faucet looked exactly like yours. Since you had to turn off the water for the entire building to remove the faucet (there were no shut-off valves in the apartments), I chose instead to just unscrew the cover plates as far as I could. Then it was no problem to spread some adhesive behind the plates and tuck in mosaic pieces underneath.
You start with the mosaic along one wall, and when you reach the faucet, you set the pieces one by one around the faucet. You might have to use half pieces to make it look nice and fit everywhere!
Good luck!
/Johan
It's great that you're going to install mosaic, it's easy and turns out beautifully! I installed mosaic in an apartment I lived in, and the faucet looked exactly like yours. Since you had to turn off the water for the entire building to remove the faucet (there were no shut-off valves in the apartments), I chose instead to just unscrew the cover plates as far as I could. Then it was no problem to spread some adhesive behind the plates and tuck in mosaic pieces underneath.
You start with the mosaic along one wall, and when you reach the faucet, you set the pieces one by one around the faucet. You might have to use half pieces to make it look nice and fit everywhere!
Good luck!
/Johan
Hi Diana,
Yes, it is difficult to cut mosaic pieces exactly as you want them, but on the other hand, they rarely need to be so precise. If there is a corner of a wall where you'll have mosaic higher up than at the other end, start there. It's not fun to try to split mosaic pieces to achieve a perfect fit for a two and a half meter high wall! However, I don't think you need to be that meticulous; if the mosaic pieces in a corner are a bit different in size, it doesn't show much after you've applied the grout. Buy a little extra so it won't matter much if some pieces break when you try to split them.
Wear a pair of sturdy gloves when taking down your existing tiles; it's easy to be surprised by how sharp a tile piece can become. A pair of safety glasses might not be a bad idea either!
/Johan
Yes, it is difficult to cut mosaic pieces exactly as you want them, but on the other hand, they rarely need to be so precise. If there is a corner of a wall where you'll have mosaic higher up than at the other end, start there. It's not fun to try to split mosaic pieces to achieve a perfect fit for a two and a half meter high wall! However, I don't think you need to be that meticulous; if the mosaic pieces in a corner are a bit different in size, it doesn't show much after you've applied the grout. Buy a little extra so it won't matter much if some pieces break when you try to split them.
Wear a pair of sturdy gloves when taking down your existing tiles; it's easy to be surprised by how sharp a tile piece can become. A pair of safety glasses might not be a bad idea either!
/Johan
We are currently building a house now, there will be three bathrooms with mosaic in all of them. Also in the kitchen.
We managed to get 220 m2 of glass mosaic really cheap at a bankruptcy auction, but we had to buy 2 pallets, hence these 220 m2.
So now we are putting mosaic everywhere we can.
;D ;D ;D
We managed to get 220 m2 of glass mosaic really cheap at a bankruptcy auction, but we had to buy 2 pallets, hence these 220 m2.
So now we are putting mosaic everywhere we can.
;D ;D ;D
