Glass Tile Backsplash Options For An Elegant Kitchen

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My husband is installing my backsplash in my kitchen and has done floors forever. He is new to backsplashes. Can he install the tile straight onto the drywall as long as it is clean and dry? And what is the best glue to use?

I am installing 4.5" x 4.5" porcelain tiles on a drywall kitchen backsplash. Applying Omnigrip mastic using a 1/4" x 3/16" vnotch trowel. The tiles have a waffle grid pattern on the back which is about 1/16" deep. I tested the application of one tile and noticed that the mastic did not fill all the waffle depressions. Are they supposed to be all filled? DO I have to backbutter the tiles? Am I using the correct trowel size? Please help!
P.S. What is the purpose of the waffle pattern in the first place?

My husband really love the look of the stone veneer and want to put it in our kitchen going from the bar and extended into the backsplash of our kitchen. The only thing is I’m pretty sure we can’t just slap it on the drywall. How would we go about securing it to the drywall we have now? Do we have to rip out the drywall and install something else? Any information would help thank you! Oh and we would really like to do it ourselves to keep costs down.

I am starting to redo my kitchen on a very tight budget and with limited do-it-yourself skills. I have a hiddious tile backsplash behind my counter and stove. It is dented and broken in some areas. I am afraid if I try and take the tile down I will have to replace the drywall too. This is beyond my skills and I don’t think I have enough time to replace both. Is there something I could put over the tile? Thanks.

My husband and are about to embark on remodeling our kitchen. We plan on keeping our cabinets and painting them white since they’re in decent condition. However, we started ripping the laminate backsplash (original to the house) and it started peeling off some of the drywall paper. Photo here: http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s160/mcleary496/IMG_3657.jpg

Now it’s all yellowed and it’s an uneven surface. We have no idea what to do. Our only idea at this point is rip the rest off, skimcoat, sand and wallpaper over it with a faux tile wallapaper.

We really want to tile, but we’re not sure if we can tile over plain drywall if we decide to take down the upper cabinets and replace the yellow-glued drywall. Should we use cement board instead? Or what are our other options here? Some good ideas would be great!

(and by "ripping" off the rest, I mean using an iron to soften the glue and peel it off the wall with less damage)

I am remodeling a condo, and have a question about the bathroom. The condo is older, 1979 to be exact and while the guest bathroom was upgraded to fabulous through-out tile, the master still seems to be mostly the original. There is a pre-formed shower that appears to be new. However, the wall above the pre-form is slightly weak. It’s nothing worthy of a bulldoze lol I was told it appears to be drywall because wet-wall was not standard at the time the condo was built.

So, my question is: what is a tactful way I could reinforce the wall above the pre-formed shower? I’m not interested in ripping out the entire shower. I was considering a tile trim, but I’d like other suggestions before taking on that project. I’m thinking a backsplash sort of technique. Anything not quite as tedious as ceramic tile, but still effective, would be great.

We have drywall in our kitchen that was painted with a smooth semi-gloss paint a good 8 yrs ago. We’d like to install 3"x6" tumbled marble as a backsplash over the drywall. It’s about 1/4" thick so probably slightly heavier than say, the tiny square glass tiles that come on a 12"x12" netting. One person at the Home Depot said we could just sand and scrape up the drywall and then apply the thinset and install the marble. Another said we might want to use a cement backing. We aren’t really DIYers and would so we don’t want to create extra work with the cement backing if it isn’t needed. That said, we don’t want the drywall to start peeling and the marble tiles to start falling off after a short amount of time.

Please advise. Thank you!

I have an electric stove against the "firewall" in my condo. Im trying to move my kitchen around for remodel and want to move my stove to the wall that is 90 degrees of it, except that is the only wet wall (plumbing is there behind the drywall). Can I do that and do I have to change the drywall out to a more fire/heat resistant backerboard? I plan on tiling or placing a backsplash above the stove, but what about lower? Thanks

I’m getting ready to install a travertine backsplash in my new kitchen. I will be installing it over existing drywall. Should I ude white thinset or mastic? Also, some people say seal the tiles befor you start, some say don’t. Any ideas?

I am looking to fix up my kitchen bc I cannot afford a remoldel. My house was built in 1978. And is very much that style. I plan on painting my cabinets and ceilings but i have not thoroughly figured out what to do about my backsplash. It is very ugly like green agate look board my dad thinks it is melamine board ? it is very glossy and has metal edging around it. I would like to know is this something that I can sand and paint or will it reduce the protectiveness of it. If so what else could I do? and if not what to use? I like those tin tiles but find they are to expensive for my large kitchen to do all at once. being as they are like 20 bucks a square not to mention the edging and adhesive and would that adhese? I am looking for a solution for this that would last around ten years until we could do a remodel.
this is glued down on the drywall and then the counters and cabinets are installed on top or rather in front of this board