Everything You Need To Know About Glass Mosaic Tiles
March 15,2022
This paper introduces some basic information about glass mosaic tiles.
What Is Glass Mosaic Tiles?
Glass mosaic tile is glass product that uses glass to press to shapes of block or hollow box. It is divided into solid glass brick and hollow glass brick commonly. Both of them are pressed at high temperature in a mold. Solid glass tile is also called crystal brick.
Characteristics Of Glass Mosaic Tiles
High transparency and selective perspective
The wall built with glass bricks has high daylighting. Vitreous brick makes the light passes diffuse scattering to make whole room is full of soft match the light, solved the uncomfortable feeling that sunshine point-blank causes.
Energy conservation and environmental protection
Vitreous brick is a green environmental protection product. It has no toxicity, no pollution, no odor, no irritation, and it does not constitute any harm to the human body.
Flexible usage
The use of vitreous brick is more flexible. It has many uses. The vitreous brick combination of different specifications can present a different dimensional aesthetic feeling.
Heat insulation
Thermal resistance R=0.17m2*K/W, and thermal conductivity K=3.1W/ (m2*K). It is able to obtain the double effect of daylighting and heat insulation if you use glass mosaic tiles in summer.
Fire prevention, dustproof, moistureproof and dew proof
Vitreous brick has good fireproof performance. Vitreous brick is in dustproof reach moistureproof and prevent knot dew respect, be better than common double deck glass. Vitreous brick also has wonderful effect on preventing zero change.
Pressure resistance, impact resistance, high safety performance
Intensity of single vitreous brick is better than common red brick. The intensity of glass tiles is similar to that of the hollow brick close. The wall is solid and stable.
The Technology
Hollow glass brick
The first mold is made into concave glass, with a thickness of about 5m-6mm. Press the two notches together at high temperature.
Solid glass brick (crystal brick)
Melt the glass and pour the liquid glass into the mold. After vitreous brick is formed, put them in water cooling undertakes polishing again for many times to become crystal brick.
Process Of Installing Glass Mosaic Tiles
- Before installing glass bricks, prepare the following materials: glass bricks, cement, steel, adhesives, and water
- Mix cement, water and adhesive in the desired proportion. Pay attention to use it as soon as possible after fusion to avoid unnecessary waste
- Install brackets where glass tiles are to be installed, and use them to support the entire glass tiles
- With the adhesive that begins agglutinate glass brick from bottom to top successively build by laying bricks or stones is on the bracket that has done well
- After vitreous brick is installed, the bracket can be taken away. Remove redundant tiles to assure the stability and aesthetics of them
- When installing glass brick, there may be redundant adhesive overflow from the gap of glass brick that has built by laying bricks or stones, you need to use a knife or other tools to eliminate redundant adhesive, otherwise it will seriously affect beauty
- After all work is finished, wait until vitreous brick is stable and you can wipe the besmirch of vitreous brick surface with wet dishcloth in order to achieve the most perfect adornment action
Precautions For Installing Glass Mosaic Tiles
- Make sure the bracket of glass brick is firm enough before glass brick construction. Ensure that the glass bricks do not fall or tilt during construction
- Vitreous brick should decide basic structure is quite stable when decorating, the position does not have deviation
- When glass brick construction, we should pay attention to the gap between each glass brick can not be too large, nor can it be too compact, otherwise it will cause the phenomenon of glass brick aesthetic deficiency
- After installing glass brick, glass brick should be inspected regularly to maintain, ensure the service life of glass brick
In The End
The above is all the information about glass mosaic tiles, hoping to bring you some help. If you need more information to place orders, welcome to contact us. We have vidrotil glass mosaic tiles, glass iridescent mosaic tiles and transparent glass mosaic tiles to be available.