Anyone out there do mosaic?

Or any other hobby that uses lots of tiles?

Cos I have just smashed down a whole wall of the buggers and there are quite a lot of little pieces of blue ceramic that would make a lovely Grecian or Roman sea on some floor in a villa somewhere :)

You can pick them up from our front drive if you want them...

The big annoyment here is that the previous owners, rather than do what I just did and spend days with a hammer and chisel chipping at tiles until one comes off so you can start levering the rest off, decided to just tile over the previous tiles. This not only meant that my job was all the more difficult (the reason the bonding on the adhesive was so strong was because it was bonding to more tiles not the wall and the double thickness did not help...) but our wall was apparently almost a centimeter thicker because of the tiles. Yes, we now have an extra cm of space in our kitchen. I wonder if this extra thickness explains the really bad mobile signal in there... :)

The only consolation is that this house is not old enough for the original tiles to be something like Regency or Victorian ones worth thousands to some collector or museum so I haven't just smashed up thousands of pounds worth of antique wall covering. Just in case, I did check... The date on the back of one tile says '1979' so not even as old as I am :).

I also have so far failed to find any satanic emblems, ancient indian burial mounds, portals to other dimensions or the fossilised remains of the previous tenant's children. According to film Law, I should have found at least one of them.

( Kitchen Fitting )