Mosaic for a driveway?

[musivarius]

I've just seen a question come up on one of the mosaic forums, someone has been commissioned to do a mosaic for a driveway where the client will park their boat (on a trailer).
They say they will use marble, porcelain, or high-fire ceramics. I can only assume the tiles will be about 4-6mm thick and about 10mm - 20mm across.

Anyone had this before? Will they be too thin? They don't mention the size of the boat but I would have though 10mm stone would have been the minimum?
Ta

[Tony McC]

We did one 20 years or so ago, as a feature beneath a lych gate at the entrance to a rather grand private driveway, but we used selected pebbles of various colours to create the desired image. The idea was similar to this which I did NOT do but am completely envious of....



...not sure how it would work with relatively thin tiles and ceramics. I'm guessing there would be problems with scratching and cracking.

[London Stone Paving]

Wow, that's impressive. I would like to have a go at that sometime. Not today though, it was the works party last night and I got the shakes big time :p

[lutonlagerlout]

that looks good gaffer
if I dreamt i did that I would wake up and apologise :;):
think the porcelain would be ok as its very hard but i guess you would need a spot on concrete base to lay them on
LLL

[musivarius]

Thanks for that, never realised the porcelain would be tough enough. Ta.

[Tony McC]

That mosaic is just a small part of a much larger work at a place up near Lancaster called Gresgarth House. Somewhere, I have the name of the mosaicist, who specialises in this highly-stylised design. The place is only open a couple or three days a year but if you're ever up that way, it's well worth checking.

I haven't been there for 5 yrs or so, but I'm sure there's a big mosaic based on the four winds.