How to install a glass mosaic tile

Oily splatters and untidy spills exhibit no test to a backsplash made of tile, one of the most straightforward to-clean materials for the stain-inclined spot behind a range or sink.
How to install a glass mosaic tile backsplash. Watch this video. Courtesy: Sal DiBlasi

What’s more, the unobtrusive shading varieties of translucent glass mosaic tile offer a rich look that makes this region a genuine eye-catcher in your kitchen. Mounted on 12×12 sheets of paper, the 3/4-inch tiles are easy to introduce and will fit around cupboards and counters with few cuts. Stunningly better, grouting the tile with another urethane-based, nonporous item implies you won’t have to apply sealant to keep your backsplash looking spiffy. Read on to perceive how This Old House senior specialized proofreader Mark Powers transformed a dull divider into a fresh out of the plastic new masterpiece.

Kill energy to repositories, and introduce a brief record. Evacuate the range. Kill the ability to any electrical containers on the divider you’re tiling; unscrew and haul them out of the crates with the goal that you’ll have space to work around them. Lay piece cardboard over your counters against the divider to be tiled to go about as a spacer. Join a piece bit of 1x timber to the divider between the ledges, utilizing drywall screws, to go about as a record. The highest point of the record ought to be even with the highest point of the cardboard spacer.

While a permeable surface, for example, new drywall or benefactor board offers the best bond with thinset, you can tile over a painted divider on the off chance that you first unpleasant up the surface utilizing a 80-coarseness sanding wipe. In the event that your dividers are splendidly shaded and you’re introducing translucent tile, prepare with a sealer-groundwork, as Kilz, before sanding so the shading won’t seep through the thinset.