I want to put up a tumbled marble backslash in our kitchen and accent areas of it with glass tile. However the glass tile I like is not as thick as the marble tile. We also want to put up a solid sheet of stainless steel (with some pattern on it) behind the cooktop. Again, it isn't as thick as the marble either. How do I account for the difference in depth when installing these items?
I just installed a combination of tumbled marble and granite accents with the same problem. I suppose the question is this...how much difference is there in the thickness? The marble that I used had pillowed edges (which made this a much easier transition), I cut my accent pieces of granite from a larger sheet so those pieces had straight cut edges and the granite was about an 1/8" thinner than the marble. This is what I did; very simple....I applied the mastic to the entire area, set the marble, then back buttered the granite with additional mastic to raise it the 1/8" and set it place. Didn't look quite right at first but once it was grouted....with those pillowed edges, it all blended perfectly!!!
We had same problem on backsplash job with a glass tile being an 1/8" and the cerami being almost a 1/4"
we used the backbutter technique after trailing thinset on wallboard
you may need to pull off tile and add more thinset to correct any lippage conflicts
be sure to clean grout lines of access thinset using side of a margin trowel to wipe out any thinset if not it will be a pain to scrape out before grouting or you will see whitish gray clumps in grout
Originally posted by slc2053: I want to put up a tumbled marble backslash in our kitchen and accent areas of it with glass tile. However the glass tile I like is not as thick as the marble tile. We also want to put up a solid sheet of stainless steel (with some pattern on it) behind the cooktop. Again, it isn't as thick as the marble either. How do I account for the difference in depth when installing these items?
