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Jan 03, 2016 - 12:45 AM
Over this past Thanksgiving, I used the self stick tiles in my kitchen. I used the "Harvest Blend" pattern. I washed my walls, to get off any grease and lightly sanded the gloss off and wiped it down with damp cloth to get off any dust. I didn't use any additional adhesives. The sticky backing is incredibly strong, so be careful when you go to set the tiles because there is zero forgiveness once they are on the wall. Also, the grout will keep them from loosening from each other. Really, though, make sure your wall is clean before you start.
I ordered a glass tile sniper from Amazon. It wasn't expensive. It scores and snips glass tiles. Make sure you have something to snip the tiles over that will catch any glass shards that may break oddly. I don't know which tile you like, but the one I purchased has squares of bronze metal tiles throughout. The snips don't work on those, so I had to trim off any rows that had them before I used a tile that would need to be snipped. They are very easy to cut, just make sure you use a good, new blade, a good cutting surface ( I used an old cutting board), and a straight edge Does that make sense? It took me a while to get used to snipping tiles, though. There are some very rough cuts they are visible, but really only because I know they'er there. I didn't put tiles under the switch/outlet plates, I took those off and snipped around so that the plates are flush with the wall. If you don't, they will be raised off the wall because of the tiles unless you install the outlet box extenders, which I didn't want to do.
All in all, these tiles were super easy to use and I couldn't be happier with the result. I did have a bit of trouble getting off the grout residue, but that has nothing to do with the tiles. It has everything to do with how I cleaned off the grout :-)
I ordered a glass tile sniper from Amazon. It wasn't expensive. It scores and snips glass tiles. Make sure you have something to snip the tiles over that will catch any glass shards that may break oddly. I don't know which tile you like, but the one I purchased has squares of bronze metal tiles throughout. The snips don't work on those, so I had to trim off any rows that had them before I used a tile that would need to be snipped. They are very easy to cut, just make sure you use a good, new blade, a good cutting surface ( I used an old cutting board), and a straight edge Does that make sense? It took me a while to get used to snipping tiles, though. There are some very rough cuts they are visible, but really only because I know they'er there. I didn't put tiles under the switch/outlet plates, I took those off and snipped around so that the plates are flush with the wall. If you don't, they will be raised off the wall because of the tiles unless you install the outlet box extenders, which I didn't want to do.
All in all, these tiles were super easy to use and I couldn't be happier with the result. I did have a bit of trouble getting off the grout residue, but that has nothing to do with the tiles. It has everything to do with how I cleaned off the grout :-)
