Manual for a mosaic table
A mosaic table is a beautiful decorative accessory for the patio. Here is step by step how to create a such a table top.As a basis for your own mosaic table a standard table base is a frame from a ring-shaped angle steel. If you bring a welding machine and manual skill which can also be produced from angle sections and even a rectangular frame that is provided with a suitable base. In the context you put as a base for tile mosaic of a precisely tailored, at least eight millimeters thick plywood board, the air should have the metal edge on each side about two to three millimeters. Calculate the entire construction (plywood, adhesive, and tiles) so that the surface of the table a little later extend beyond the frame, so that can accumulate along the edge of frame no rain water. A handmade decoration for your garden and you can add everything you want even LED.
Before you begin the task of wrapping the plate, you should first under the table outside with Masking tape or a special masking film to protect it from dirt. All products needed for bonding and sealing of the table in the building materials available commercially, for example, by the company Ceresit. The following picture explains all other Arbeitssschritte to the finished mosaic table.
Plywood prepare
First, the plywood on both sides with a special shower and bath seal is coated. Thus, the plate is fully protected against water. After drying time, set the finished panels prepared in this stand and stir the flexible natural stone tile adhesive lumps in accordance with the instructions. Then, the adhesive is applied with a trowel and combed through with a ‘notched trowel.
Table used to stick tiles
Now fit the tiles broken glass or mosaic tiles from the outside. If one of the tiles with a straight edge to the outside, it forms a neat circle of completion. Very clean, the final edge, if you adjust the edges of the tiles with a tile shards clip to rounding. The distance between the mosaic parts should be two millimeters around – the arrangement is such as colors and shapes of the tiles chosen freely as well. Tip If you want consistent pattern or figure embarrassed, you should be the main lines before laying an orientation with a nail in scratch the tile adhesive.
Grout spaces
After about three hours of drying time, you grout the spaces between the tile pieces with a special stone mortar joints. On the expiration of the mass is best, a rubber wiper. This stress on the joints several times until they are filled. Drag the remains of the grout with a rubber wiper to edge down.
Clean surface
After about 15 minutes, the grout is so far dried that you wash the surface with a sponge and polish away the last veil mortar with a cotton cloth can.
Add scratch
In order to penetrate between the tiles and metal surface mount no water, the joints are sealed with a special stone silicone. This joint and metal edges are first cleaned with a small spatula.
Apply silicone compound
Now enter the elastic silicone material along the outer edge and smooth it with a wet spatula. Subsequently, the silicone composition to cure.
