September 28, 2013.
What owner does not want the design of each part of his home to be original? An excellent means of creating an individual style in the interior will be a mosaic – a technology that came to us from the ancient culture of Egypt. It allows you to create a unique monolithic pattern or a pattern from a wide variety of materials of mosaic tiles by laying them. If you need to finish the pool, loggia, bathroom, fireplace, sauna, arrange the facade of the building, then the correct solution would be to buy a mosaic.
Today, the construction market is saturated with a wide range of domestic and imported mosaics of all colors and shades, brilliant and matte. This allows you to harmoniously fit the mosaic part into the overall design of the room. For the manufacture of mosaics, marble, ceramics, glass, smalt are mainly used. You can fix the mosaic set on the surface with the help of lime, cements of various types, mastic.
One of the most popular types of mosaics for finishing work was a glass mosaic. Its advantages are the availability of prices, the variety of textures. In addition, glass mosaic is quite durable, heat -resistant (up to +150*c) and waterproof. It is these characteristics that allow it to use it for facing heating surfaces and water bodies. The main element of this type of mosaic is the Venetian glass. For good color, cadmium and mother of pearl are added to it. An important detail is the choice of appropriate glue for the fiberglass and a special grout. The transparency and effect of the final result depends on these auxiliary details. Most often, glass mosaic is made in the shape of a square. She is well “adjacent” in the same room with natural stone, porcelain stoneware.
An important detail is the convenience and ease of caring for a glass mosaic. The purity of such a surface is maintained using ordinary detergents, disinfectors.
It should be mentioned about the variety of glass -sized – smalt. It is made by rubbing of glass into powder, adding dyes and returning to its original state. The result is a change in the color of the mosaic in different lighting.
