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Originally Posted by Keith
Any other tips Joe on problems you ran into or things you learned tiling it.
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I did thin set twice, the first to fill the mortar gaps, the second to stick on the tiles. Since they come in 12" squares, make sure that second batch of thinset is thick enough to hold because the moisture loosens them from the back netting. If they fall off you're back to one at a time.
Those little ones are hard to cut on a tile saw without losing a finger, I managed to do the straight cuts with the score and break type tile cutter and only lost 3-4 to bad breaks.
Other than that, the old rule applies here, measure twice cut once. Especially on the miter cuts for the wood enclosure and mantle. Rather than buy trim pieces around the brushed nickel insert, which were not available in this design, I painted wood molding with the same color as the grout. It's a gas fireplace and the metal doesn't get hot even when on all day.