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   LIVEONSAWDUST | Feb 14, 2009 05:14am | #1

   anyone?

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   Dam_inspector | Feb 14, 2009 05:18am | #2

   Glass cutter?
   I think a regular score and snap tile cutter will work too.

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   jet | Feb 14, 2009 05:19am | #3

   Water diamond saw.

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   KenHill3 | Feb 14, 2009 06:20am | #4

   Yup. Use a diamond tile saw, with H2O, of course. Take 'er slow and easy.

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   Mongo | Feb 14, 2009 07:21am | #5

   I use a continuous rim diamond blade on a wet saw.

   Some glass tiles have a coating on the back, if that gets chipped or ragggedy it can throw off the look of the tile, depending on if the glass itself is clear, opaque, or somewhere in between.

   It might help to orientate your tile so your cutting edge goes through the coating and then into the glass. Think of the coating like a veneer on wood, you want your cutting edge to pul the veneer onto the wood, not off of it.

   So "it depends".

   Thinset. Again, it depends. Normally use white thinset so gray doesn't muddle the color of the glass.

   Thinset the wall with the notched side to get the right amount on the wall. Then knock it flat with the flat edge of the trowel. Then set the tile. If you leave the ridges, any ridges that are not fully compressed can show through the glass tile.

   It's glass, so obviously it doesn't absorb moisture from the thinset.

   Don't use mastic. Mastic can yellow.

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   andybuildz | Feb 14, 2009 03:49pm | #6

   John Bridges Forum has a huge folder/posts on glass tiles I read a ways back. You may wanna search it out over there.

    

    

    

   http://www.cliffordrenovations.com

   http://www.ramdass.org

    

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   LIVEONSAWDUST | Feb 14, 2009 04:44pm | #7

   Thanks to all for the tips, I will see them today, try to take a sample for test cuts