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Marshallville, GA on Apr 15, 2012

Can I use drywall fiberglass mesh to lay pennies on it, as a mosaic, so I don't have to sit on the floor.

This will be for my kitchen floor. I thought maybe I can cut the mesh each in a sq. foot, then lay the pennies on it, then lay it on my cement backer board with thin set. then grout it and and seal it. Since I have 250 sq ft to do, I think the drywall mesh will be the least costly. Any comments will help. thank you

5 Comments

Steve G Fort Collins, CO

I'm just trying to understand this project. Your floor surface will be all pennies with grout in the gaps? I guess I'm not clear on how much floor work and bending down you would be saving by putting the pennies on the mesh first.

on Apr 15, 2012 · Like 0
Michelle I Marshallville, GA

I will doing an entire kitchen floor and a small laundry room. By placing one penny at a time for the entire area would be back breaking, compared to sitting at a table and doing it 1 ft sq. sections, until I had enough, then laying them on the floor with thin set and then grouting. I have researched this somewhat, and I have heard it being done both ways. The mosaic lady on this site, did it sitting on the floor and it took a year and half. She did do it with all the pennies heads up and ...»
facing in one direction, which I won't be doing. But I would like to know if I could use the drywall fiberglass mesh as the backing for the pennies?

on Apr 15, 2012 · Like 0
Steve G Fort Collins, CO

It looks like there is specialty mosaic mesh that can be used for this purpose. Here is a description of a similar project. Read down to the comments for her explanation of the mesh
http://big-design.blogspot.com/2011/01/penny... ...»

She bought the mesh here apparently:
http://www.mosaicartsupply.com/mosaic_tile_m...
Sounds pretty back-breaking either way. Good luck.

on Apr 15, 2012 · Like 1
HandyANDY Home Renovation... Marietta, GA

Exactly - you want to use a mesh that's designed for what you are doing...or all that work will be wasted.

on Apr 16, 2012 · Like 1
Cody Royster West Point, GA

Hey check out my profile and post - we just tiled my fireplace in pennies (back and floor) and used a product called Bondera from our local Lowe's It was great to use and allowed us to either cut and layout pennies or do directly on the fireplace!

on Apr 02, 2013 · Like 0