Your situation is different you would have to build up the rest of the wall to accommodate 4 or 5 sheets of mosaic.
Mosaic tile thicker than wall tile.
I think that will work too but it s all so delicate until its on the wall because thinset isn t really strong when its that thin.
It s common for higher quality tiles and specialty border tiles to be.
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Ceramic tiles range in thickness from 1 4 inch to 3 4 inch with thicker tiles being more durable and less likely to break.
Ceramic mosaic tiles are essentially smaller versions of geometric tiles usually no larger than 2 1 4 and no thicker than ranging in size from to 2 3 16 in square rectangular or oblong hexagonal pentagonal and trapezoidal shapes.
I tried using a piece of backer board but that made the mosaic tiles push past the regular tiles.
The mosaic tiles are about 1 8 3 16 thinner than the other tiles.
I wound up trying to build up using thicker glass mortar but that resulted in less than perfect mosaic so i need to rip this out.
Installing thin glass tile next to thicker tile on a wall.
Of course that s where the kerdi could come in.
Both vitreous and semi vitreous mosaic tiles were available unglazed in solid or variegated colors.
No matter how thick.
Today many glass tiles are produced in thicknesses matching ceramic tile but there will always be cases when the problem of various tile thickness.
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These are products such as glass and natural stone mosaics individual painted tiles or custom accents.
The biggest problem with these however is they are oftentimes not the same thickness as your main tile they are usually thinner.
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Ten or fifteen years ago when nearly all commercial glass tiles were 1 8 thick installers had a recurring problem of having to fit thin glass tiles into a thicker ceramic tile installation.
If it was the opposite tile thicker than mosaic you would build up the mortar under the shallow one and make then both the same depth.