8 Easy Steps To Repair/Fix Broken Glass Patio Table Top
Patio glass table looks particularly great in gardens, restaurants as well as near to water pool but unfortunately, the glass table can be broken easily because the glass used for tables is mostly not so strong. So if the glass of the tabletop is broken then here are the steps to repair or fix them broken glass of the patio tabletop. Follow each and every step carefully to get the best results of your hard work:
- Cut: In order to fix your broken glass patio table top you have to cut a piece of water-resistant plywood to fit over your tabletop and then attach the plywood to the glass tabletop with the help of screws. If your table is large then fortify the plywood underneath by screwing two-by four-inch boards to the under surface of both the plywood and the glass table.
- Backer board: After following the previous step now you have to cut a piece of cement backer board to fit over the plywood you've applied in the previous step and screw it to the water-resistant plywood in every 6 inches.
- Dry: Now, dry lay the tiles on the patio tabletop, placing tile spacers in betwixt . If you have an odd number of rows then center the middle row and if you have an even number of rows then center the middle grout line. (the space between the tiles).
- Remove: Remove the tile spacers now and run a pencil between the tiles and create a grid and it will guide you as you place the tiles.
- Spread: Now, spread the mortar on the patio tabletop by using a notched trowel, and keeping it to one row of your pencil grid. Place the tiles on the mortar and squirming them slenderly as you pressure them into the mortar.
- Repeat: Repeat the step if you want an additional rows of tiles, if not then leave it. Let the mortar dry at least a whole night.
- Push: Once dried, now remove the tile spacers from between the tiles and then push the grout into the area betwixt the tiles with a grout float. Scrape grout from the surface of your tiles with the side of your grout float.
- Drag: This is your final step now, drag the corner of a moist sponge along the grout lines, creating an even grade. Wipe the unexpended grout from the tile surface with a wet sponge. Leave the grout to dry for a whole night.