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Laying 220 of the fuckers and trying to get them straight and level can fuck right off.
I've recently joined multiple tiling fb groups, I was looking for a tiler in the first instance then realised how informative and funny some posts are what what to do and what not to do.
I saw a post recently re: mosaic tiles with a paper frontage and the advice was to lay them first then soak off the paper
Even saw one suggestion saying they used to grout them from the back before laying on adhesive, but not a clue if that's correct
let me find the post
Vesalius
That's the one. Like an Aladdin's cave. We were trying to find a specific type of orange for months in a small quantity. Walked in there and they have every colour and finish you could think of. Really nice, really helpful. Only annoyance for me is that I wanted mosaic tiles on a mesh sheet so I could cut them into strips two tiles wide. These ones came on a paper sheet that you soaked off and then laid the tiles individually. They are also very thin, so need a deeper bed of adhesive and ours are slightly transparent so the grey adhesive I used for the big tiles dulled them. I had to take up what I had laid and use white adhesive. Laying 220 of the fuckers and trying to get them straight and level can fuck right off.