Steam room-Bisazza 10mm graduated blend

[MTiler]

This is a steam room I finished last week and was good fun, small but a tad complicated. The customer had seen a pic of graduated mosaics and took it to Domus and they suggested Bisazza 10mm paperfaced mosaics, bless em lol. With the amount there was there wasnt enough for a vertical blend. With graduated blends where theres seats, angled ceilings etc you get a lot of wastage and you need more of certain sections of the blend for it to match the walls.
I suggested having the graduation running around the room horizontally, with the shower wall that runs into mainly in the darkest blend. I marked out the walls and it was do-able. The contractor and customer let me get on with it. More of the darkest blend had to be ordered. The floor I just left it to the end to see what I had left to play with. The room is made with pre-formed Lux Elements.
It was a new contact who wants to get into installing steam rooms and he had seen my work on Instagram.

Ive tried linking this to the album of this job but all the albums come up.

Sharon



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[Old Mod]

Lovely work Sharon 🙂

 

[J Sid]

excellent work Sharon 🙂

 

[One Day]

Beautiful as always! How much grout did you use out of interest?!

 

[hmtiling]

Top drawer! off

 

[WetSaw]

Simply stunning.

 

[MTiler]

Beautiful as always! How much grout did you use out of interest?!

Thanks. About 8 pots of Filgel I think

 

[LM]

Stunning work as usual.

 

[John Benton]

Fantastic Sharon, wonderful as per, but can you change an alternator? 🙄

 

[One Day]

Fantastic Sharon, wonderful as per, but can you change an alternator? 🙄

Probably better than you can!

 

[John Benton]

Probably better than you can!

Very possibly, what's an alternator?

 

[Concrete guy]

I used to despise being asked to fit mosaics, it drove me potty. I much preferred fitting natural stone.

However I always enjoy looking at your jobs, this isn't normal tiling it's a specialist job in it's own right, almost arty in a way.

 

[stephenoneill]

Unreal .Love your work Sharon.your not a tiler your a magician

 

[MTiler]

I used to despise being asked to fit mosaics, it drove me potty. I much preferred fitting natural stone.

However I always enjoy looking at your jobs, this isn't normal tiling it's a specialist job in it's own right, almost arty in a way.

I have an arty background which has helped I think.

 

[John Benton]

I have an arty background which has helped I think.

Dot to dot or paint by numbers Sharon? 😉

 

[Aston]

Brilliant as always!
The queen of mosaics without a doubt..

 

[andyq]

Stunning very well done

 

[Qwerty]

Excellent Sharon. I really like that

 

[AndY mac]

Breathtaking I'm in awe of your work.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

What's ur chosen methods of cutting these little buggers ?

 

[Glynn]

Top workmanship.

 

[MTiler]

What's ur chosen methods of cutting these little buggers ?

I have a Bisazza glass cutting diamond blade and Nepolit glass nippers but only on curved or angled edges otherwise no cuts.

 

[MTiler]

Dot to dot or paint by numbers Sharon? 😉

Lol. I used to work in the packaging design industry and was a graphic designer and later a mock up artist.

 

[Aston]

sharon,
have you ever thought about teaching this type of work.
imagine you teaming up with a person with premises on here, could be very lucrative and rewarding.
you could teach all your bisazza training along with all the tips and techniques you've accumulated over the years....

 

[MTiler]

sharon,
have you ever thought about teaching this type of work.
imagine you teaming up with a person with premises on here, could be very lucrative and rewarding.
you could teach all your bisazza training along with all the tips and techniques you've accumulate over the years....

Its something that has crossed my mind recently as I wont be able to tile for ever lol. It would be fun. Its just the logistics.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

I have a Bisazza glass cutting diamond blade and Nepolit glass nippers but only on curved or angled edges otherwise no cuts.

What wet cutter is the blade in ?

 

[MTiler]

What wet cutter is the blade in ?

Its a small blade for a grinder, and I wouldnt try cutting paper faced mosaics on a wet cutter 🙂

 

[White Room]

Its a small blade for a grinder, and I wouldnt try cutting paper faced mosaics on a wet cutter 🙂

Your'd be sitting there with a lap full of tesserae...

 

[MTiler]

This is the blade, its 100mm.

 

[White Room]

This is the blade, its 100mm.

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You use a slower speed on the grinder for cutting Sharon....

 

[MTiler]

You use a slower speed on the grinder for cutting Sharon....

are you asking or telling? I have a variable speed grinder or I use my cordless one, which is less brutal than a corded one, for site work. I need to find a 110v one someday.