Love this video! I really wish you had somebody to tape you as you worked. Would like to see how you do around the cabinets and outlets. Sorry I'm a visual person.
I think what stopped me in the past has been the outlets. I already did my back-splash, and now am looking at videos. I took the new outlet covers then ran a thick tape around them and installed them to the outlet, then I ran the grout right up to the tape with a slight bevel. Now, the job is finished, and the grout makes a very nice border around the outlet covers, while allowing the electrician to remove the entire box if needed, without destroying the tilework. This method described in this video is very typical, run the tiles under the plug-ins. This makes it impossible to remove the electrical box without destroying the tile job. So, my attempt worked, for me. I certainly appreciate the video, I have been waiting for the morons to thin out from RU-vid so Craftsmen can propagate best methods. I can feel the resistance from the Trade-Guilds. Relax. Let the World LEARN. There is nothing magical about laying bricks.
+Cody McDonald Thinset is too grainy to use with thin glass mosaic tile, however the only application for mastic would be for this tile...and other types of tile on backsplashes. It dries solid overnight, some tile guys want to do a one trip job and is why they want a faster drying time ( with thinset ).
it's a before - after video. Sorry man, you seem like you know your stuff but as a guy who has never done this or even watched it being done, I haven't learned anything by watching this video. Should you dry fit the tiles first ? How do you cut the tile ? How do you notch them to make room for the screw ? What's the process for applying the adhesive ? Beautiful end result but ..I'll keep searching you tube...
I nice way to deal with the electrical outlets is to simply wrap the lug screws with electrical tape. Then you don't have to worry about accidentally touching the screws and getting shocked while tiling.
What would you do if the counter top and the top cabinet were not level such that both have 1/8 inch slop, however both maintained the same distance from each other. In other words both are parallel but not horizontal (1/8 on an inch slop )
Yossi Khalon The eye doesn't gravitate upwards, so the bottom tile is still set level regardless..."off cuts" are made at top...nothing else can be done.
for the inside corner: do you take the 1st wall tiled all the way in and then overlap as you brought in the second wall? Or do you leave both a little short of the corner? not sure if that made sense...but how do you deal with the inside corner?
+Nick Dovey Whichever wall I end with, it goes all the way to the corner & then overlap, matching tile up close as I can, then grout the corner to get a seamless look.
The others were porcelain....I use ( with non sanded grout ) a grout ad-mix that makes the grout stronger, less likely to crack. The sealing part is on the customer since the whole thing must dry before sealing.
I've read in a few web sites that mastic is a glue. Being a glue it shouldn't be used behind glass because it'll turn yellow. I'd much rather use mastic because it's so sticky. But obviously you're not worried about this yellowing of mastic. Don't you think that ten years from now that glue may yellow and bleed through the paper backing of the clear tiles?
The mastic GLUES tile to the surface of the wall, but doesn't mean it's ELMERS glue that yellows....the manufactures I'm sure are aware of it's application purposes. And the glass tile have a white backing, they are not clear glass.
+jean smith I always give my customers the choice....had we stopped at the counter, it wouldn't line up to the cabinet above, so they said take it to the door trim.
I disagree, if I'm intepreting your note correctly. It would have looked complete, even if there were an end treatment, if he had stopped and not gone past the left end of the stove.
Not really a how to video. More of a look no tile now there is tile! No info on cutting tile or notching around the outlets. The idea of a how to video is to show how not look all done presto chango!!
