Pebble Tiles and Stone Mosaic Tiles can be used in an extensive variety of installations. They are appropriate for both indoor and outdoor applications. Commercial applications include flooring, feature walls, bar surfaces, and walkways in projects ranging from restaurants to medical facilities, public parks, and corporate offices. Residential installations include pools and pool decks, patios, landscaping, fountains, water features, kitchen backsplashes, flooring, shower floors, bath and powder room floors, entryways, fireplaces and BBQ areas.

Installing a pebble tile or river rock floor is pretty much the same as installing a ceramic tile floor.

First, purchase the pebble or river rock. Most of these rocks come on a 12x12 mesh backing that actually interlocks. I put this down in my bathroom and since there was already a vinyl floor in my bathroom I left it there and installed right over the floor. The vinyl floor is a perfect moisture barrier so there is no need to pull up your linoleum or vinyl floor. My website offers pebble rock if you are interested.

When you purchase your river rock, measure first, and buy just a little more than that. Because I had to go around the toilet it was easier to have a couple of extra 12 inch meshed back tiles where I could cut off pieces of the rock to fill in spaces.

Put your adhesive down in a space of 2 feet by 2 feet. The reason you do that is because the adhesive dries quickly. After you put the adhesive down, place the 12 inch meshed river rock tile down just like you would a 12 inch ceramic tile. Since the mesh is interlocking, just follow the locking.

After you have completed your floor a decision has to be made. Do you want to add grout or not. The cool thing about river or pebble tile is that if you don't want to grout it you don't have to. You just leave it as it is.

I personally live in the Chicagoland area and I wanted my bathroom to look like a sandy beach so I added grout. What I did was add grout all the way to the tops of the rocks and when it hardened I took a hand sander and just sanded off the tops of the rocks so my bathroom floor now looks like a rocky, sandy beach.

After you are done and you have left the floor to dry you can seal it. I personally used a very high gloss sealer which makes the rocks look wet. Now, because you are working with rock, you don't have to seal it if you don't want to. This all depends on where you are installing. If you want to install in the kitchen where food may be dropped on the floor, you might want to seal it just for protection. There are many different kinds of sealers so you don't have to go high gloss if you don't want to.

After everything has dried, you now have a unique but beautiful pebble tile floor.