After reading this article, you will learn how to make glass tiles from broken bottles with your own hands
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Repair in the kitchen or in the bathroom can be done, even if you have a minimum of funds. For a kitchen apron or bath, it is not necessary to buy expensive tiles - it can be made with your own hands from glass waste. We will learn how to make such glass tiles with your own hands.
What are the advantages of glass tiles over other types of coatings?
The advantages of walls lined with glass tiles:
- A small room seems more
- The darkened room seems lighter
- A room where a low ceiling will appear higher
- Due to the water resistance of the tiles, the room is not afraid of dampness
- Walls covered with glass tiles can be washed with detergents with chemical and alkaline substances
- The walls where the glass tiles are glued is durable are not afraid of sunlight
Disadvantages of glass tiles:
- The wall with glass tiles cannot be cleaned with abrasive powders
- The glass tiles are quite fragile and you can’t knock on it with sharp objects
- Glass tiles are quite heavy, so when gluing it needs a high -quality frame
The advantages of glass tiles made with your own hands:
- Environmentally friendly - because you know what you put there
- Strong
- Large selection of colors
- You can pour the form that you like and size
What materials do glass tiles do from with their own hands?
To make glass tiles with your own hands, you will need:
- Glass (bottles, window glasses, broken jars)
- The resin is polyester - to fasten all particles without heating and burning, it is inexpensive
- Paints with adhesion - for the production of different colors of tiles
- Hardener-is added if you want the tile to harden within 1-2 hours
- Concrete mixer or crusher - for grinding glass pieces
- The form into which we will fill the liquid mixture will then get tiles, maybe made of plastic, metal or gypsum, store or with your own hands
How to make glass tiles with your own hands?
Let's start creating glass tiles with our own hands:
- We prepare glass bottles, polyester resin, dyes, hardener, shape, and an even surface on which tiles will harden.
- We break bottles or other glass products into pieces.
- We break large pieces of glass with a hammer into pieces as smaller as possible or chop them in a concrete mixer, a crusher, having previously added a little water so that glass dust does not fly in the air. The ideal option for glass particles is 1-3 mm.
- Add polyester resin to crushed glass. It should be 1 kg of broken glass 50-100 g.
- To harden the tiles faster, add 2 to 30 g of hardener per 1 kg of glass powder, the larger, the faster the tiles will harden.
- We add to the glass mass the dye, the amount of it depends on the saturation of the color that you want to get.
- Mix the mass well. Remember, the smaller the glass is smaller, the more homogeneous the color will turn out.
- We prepare a flat table. Pour the resulting mass in pure forms, previously lubricated with technical petroleum jelly or other fat -containing agents. The forms can be store or make it yourself from durable plastic, gypsum, metal. Glass tile should harden at least 1 hour.
- Before the distribution of masses, you need to think about how we will remove air bubbles, otherwise they can spoil the appearance of the tiles. Vacuum machines cope in large industries with air bubbles. At home, air bubbles from tiles can be removed if the mixture is a little heated before spill in the mold, and then shit in the form several times. After a while, the vibration must be repeated.
- When glass tiles harden, they can be removed from the shape.
So, we learned to make glass tiles with our own hands.
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