What would work best to secure bits of sea glass, shells, ceremic tiles and the like to the verticle surface of a poured concrete retaining wall?
This is a DIY project for a friend’s garden in the PNW. Wall is about 2′ tall and 20′ long.
What would work best to secure bits of sea glass, shells, ceremic tiles and the like to the verticle surface of a poured concrete retaining wall?
This is a DIY project for a friend’s garden in the PNW. Wall is about 2′ tall and 20′ long.
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The pros will likely check in with better ideas, but the first thing that comes to mind for me is white thinset.
Mine makes the second vote for white thinset.
Looks like we have a consensus on thinset. Thanks to you and Dan for your replies.
Note that we both said "white". It will cause less color clash with the materials than would regular grey thinset.
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That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
two words Lati crete. Well actually it is one word, but that is no where near as dramatic. Or you could go with Mapei as well. Although Laticrete is a U.S. based company. Products from Laticrete were used in Beijing on the new pools for the Olympics. I am using today some 317 thinset with 333 admixture for glass mosaic.
In a word, thanks. Or, that could be two words--thank you...
Glass can be a bit touchy and this has some fantastic bonding properties, truly superb.