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Regardless of pull ratios:

USAGE
2 Speed Left (Yaw)

Any 11-speed MTB stuff (GX, NX) will not work with an 11-speed road derailleur. Get the Apex one Phil posted, or the right hand S700

I was going to say...

I can go through it with you over a pint.

How best to do it is somewhat contextual to the buyer.

Can this misalignment of the mosaics be retrospectively remedied? (300mm obviously isn't always 300mm)

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I thought you were going to get a professional to do the tiles?

When you say retrospectively remedied I take it you mean without tearing them off the wall? Errr no.

Can they be taken of the wall and put back up? Possibly but I guarantee that you'll fuck at least one of the mosaics and maybe some of the other tiles taking them off. Add to that cleaning the muck off the back will be a pain in the hole and there's even greater scope for fucking a tile up there.

If this was done by a "pro" I'd be witholding payment until he made good at his own cost. At the end of the day he should have checked this first and allowed a larger grout line in the mosaic at the very least (this would still be noticeable but less so than what's there). What he should have done is pointed it out so you could return the mosaics and then help you source and appropriate replacement.

You could always try and style it out, if anyone sees it and asks look at the ground and mumble "errrr it's a design statement".

Ah, bugger.

In the "err, it's a design statement" bracket Mrs and I have discussed overlapping the joins with another row of the mosaics, say 60mm, to give some extra 3D textural effect. Bloody hell, we're trying here (sad face emoji)

Cheers as always

more like "err, there must be something wrong with you, it looks fine to me"

Ah yes, the classic denial - nice call

Do you have any spare mosaics?

Only a couple of packs and can't source more.

Mrs' suggestion (now we are where we are) which is better than mine is that we have a horizontal row of three mosaics (one of each colour) covering each join with the centre point obviously being the grey tile grout lines either side - as below. I wonder if this is the best of a bad bunch suggestion.

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Paint the grout the same as vertical tiles the so the horizontal joins dissappear and all you see are vertical lines?

@midlife has a good suggestion you could also try getting a grout rake and raking out the horizontal lines between the tiles and re-grouting with a light grey or cream grout that is closer in colour to the mosaics.

If you put tiles on top of tiles like you are suggesting you are inviting water penetration problems down the line.

As in half an inch of each colour paint repeated over and over for each join?

Thanks for the info re tiles on tiles, though is it worth pointing out that area is relatively dry (as in shower water doesn't really reach that far?)

Cheers - what a way to start the weekend

Re-grouting the horizontal lines cream was another of Mrs Spumante's suggestions - bloody annoying

@Pasty_Spumante Sort of what Bobbo suggested, something to hide the horizontal white grout line that looks out of place.

@bobbo thanks @midlife ok - so dull down the obvious white line by using cream or grey grout or painting. Alternatively, another suggestion from Mrs Spumante to hide the severity of the mismatch it to run a vertical row of 3 mosaics (with them sitting ontop of one another or with a narrow/wide grout join as required) running the length down the outsides of the mosaic strip). Ok, seems like the horizontal strip of three across is a no go so I guess only realistic option is dull down the white grout line with off white/cream or paint. Thanks both, very much appreciate your advice

Or some other way of breaking the horizontal line with some form of vertical running down the joins

Cover it with a heated towel rail :)

Or maybe just leave it for a month and see if you still care.. there's a few things in my house that annoyed me at the time but don't bother me at all now.

Appreciate that very much. All about perspective I know - I'm just a bit gutted as I can see my wife is really disappointed and that's rubbing off on me (the disappointment that is, not my wife, unfortunately)

If she's that disappointed she may not be rubbing off on you for some time.

Ah, light relief... or not as the case may be

One last thing about this. You've got some decent ideas about how to make it better try them out gradually in order of cost and how reversible they are. Paint and grout while time consuming and a pain in the arse Can be scraped out or off. You won't get tile adhesive off the tiles if you decide to go down that route.

Much appreciated mate, sound advice. Now, apparently there's some rugby on tomorrow.