Taping & Flipping the Mosaic Over Day.......

This has been a very nerve racking process trying to figure out the best way to get this now completed giant mosaic on to the final resting place.

Well we came up with the idea of taping the entire piece so that it would remain intact (hopefully) and then we flip it over so that we can glue the fiberglass mesh onto the back. (Easy right?)

We are adding the fiberglass mesh to give it the extra strengh since it will be hung vertically on an exterior wall and because we have so many small pieces of glass.

After the fiberglass mesh is dried we will remove the tape on the top of the glass and clean up any excess glue on the top of the glass.

Now it will look like a giant backsplash tile! (You know the kind that you buy at your local Home Depot that is usually 12 x 12)

We will then put this giant mosaic onto the base which is plywood for stability and wonder board. This will be installed just like a tile floor is installed.

Starting our first piece of glass was really scarey! One wrong move and we could totally misplace a piece of glass which could throw off the entire process!!!!
Yikes!!!

We can't believe the first piece went on so smooth!!!
All the anxiety for nothing!!!!

After the first piece is placed then they rolled the top so that the tape would adhere to the glass pieces.

Second piece....
We overlapped the pieces carefully.

More rolling and making sure all pieces adhere to the tape.
All went well except the last taped piece of course! But we got through it!

Now we slid a large piece of board underneath it and put another on top of it and taped them together so that we could flip it.

There it goes!
It wasn't bad at all! It wasn't even that heavy with all of the help!

We got this!!!!

I bet you could have heard the loud cheer that we made when we finished this process!!!
All of us really put a lot of thought into this process so that it would go sucessfully and it paid off!
On to the next step.....
Next we will be glueing the fiberglass mesh onto the back of the mosaic that is now upside down with the tape on the bottom.
I'll keep you posted......