Mosaic tiles for the Kitchen wall.

[bluenun20]

Over the years I have tiles a few floors and bathroom walls but have never used Mosaic tiles.

Are they much more difficult to install?
I assume the Mosaic is mounted to a plastic or linen mesh?

I have 4 walls, 3 corners and a window sill and reveal to tile.
I use an electric tile cutter which is great for normal tiles but I wonder how it will cope with Mosaic tiles if they move around while cutting.

 

[chappers]

bit more difficult yes, but you should manage, they are mounted on a mesh yes but you can get a stiffened mosaic backer sheet, which helps with both alignment and helps prevent adhesive squeeze through, which is your greatest problem.
Get yourself a mosaic trowel which has a 3-4mm notch , I then also normally slightly flatten the adhesive off too. Again to prevent squeeze through.
Cutting- Unfortunately you will have to cut each mosaic individually, or break with tile nippers.
Staggering sheets will help prevent obvious join lines, if you want to use spacers between sheets, use flat window packers so as to support all mosaics on the sheet

 

[bluenun20]

Thank-you for the detailed reply.
It does sound a bit more complicated then normal tiles.

 

[chappers]

only marginally though

 

[DavidA1982]

I have done two kitchen walls with glass mosaic tiles. It is, definitely, harder, but far from unmanageable. But most of that is because glass is such a pain. You can buy a specialist cutter for mosaics, and next time I would try one of those.

Appearance-wise a bit of planning has to go in too if you have say 4 different colours in your mosaic.