Mosaic Novelties

Just knocked down a wall between two rooms which will make a large kitchen area. There are already mosaic tiles on the floor in pretty good order. They’ve been there since the 1950′s and probably (like the bathroom) are on a compacted type of very fine sand (any idea on the name of this stuff?) [...]

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I'm installing a kitchen back splash of 1" x 1" glass tile. Right now there is drywall where the tile will be. I've read that it is better to use cement backing board as a substrate. Is this really necessary or can I just use thin-set to mount the tile directly to the drywall and [...]

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