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The great thing about modern mosaic tiles is that they are attached to a mesh backing, so they are evenly spaced out. This also means that when you come to tiling around tricky shapes such as electrical sockets, you won’t be tile cutting. You may still have to break some mosaics in half, to get right up to the edge, but that is a whole lot easier than shaping larger tiles.

Another advantage is that if you are left with a small space to fill, you can just detach a single tile to use individually. Mosaics are extremely versatile. Another advantage to mosaic tiles is that you don’t need to think about repeating a pattern. Just line up each section of mosaics and any pattern of colours or shapes is effortlessly repeated.

As with any tiling job, you still need to mark a level line on the wall as your starting point and work downwards. If you are covering the entire wall, you still need to establish a true plumb line. You also need to make sure that if the tiles make up a pattern or are of alternating colours, you place them the right way up.

Once the mosaic tiles are in position and the adhesive is set, you can apply the grout. This too is an easier job than with bigger tiles because you can sweep a layer of grout over the whole area. You then just wipe off the excess, revealing the beautiful tiles and uniform, level grout.