Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Overall, the product is good and works and looks as advertised. The price is, in my opinion a little high for what this is. This is great for convience factor- and thats how i would recommend it. I would not recommend this as a cost saver. Originally I thought this product was going to save me a lot of money and it would be a lot less expensive than a traditional backsplash. It is only marginally cheaper though. Yes you dont need mortar or thinset.. but those items arent all that expensive anyway. These tiles are $15 per square foot... which is about average for nicer quality mosaic sheets. I have a modest sized kitchen with out a 30 sq ft area between the cabinets and counters. I needed two boxes which set me back about $500. I also bought some construction caulking style adhesive. Installing it was fairly standard for tiling. Generally speaking stuff in a kitchen is not always square.. so you kind of have to just keep adjusting things slightly as you are installing. In the end, you wont even see where you have to tweak lines because it all blends in. I must say the tiles are way harder to cut than advertised. I bought tin snips for this project (ad that into the final cost too) and i had about a half dozen outlets and some other things to cut around. My hand was dead after a few outlets. I also had to cut these long tiles length wise .... that was an absolute bear of a task. It is almost impossible to cut a pristine straight line down the center due to the natural undulation of the rock. My husband and I gave up and bought a table saw. (add that into the final cost now) After the buying the saw things were a breeze. When we finished up there were very large unsightly gaps between the counter splashboard thing and the wall. We then had to go buy a tube of sanded grout caulking to fill the cracks (keep adding!) The product itself was pretty cool. Yes it is absolutely and without any doubt REAL rock. I really cant understand the people who say it is cardboard. ((How can you even say that??, it shatters actual shards of ROCK when you cut it by hand!)) The wall looks the best when there is under cabinet lighting that is turned on so you can see the shadows of the undulations and textures of the rock. In the day light though.. it is pretty hard to detect rough looking texture. It looks pretty flat without the side scraping light effect. I should also add that this stuff stinks to high heaven. It smells strongly of chemical adhesive toxic death. I just opened the box and took all of the tiles out and spread them on the garage floor for a day and that pretty much aired them out. There is no detectable smell once everything was installed. ( im writing this 2 months later fyi) My final thoughts on this again are... it is a pretty cool product. The engineering is neat. I would use it for updating SMALL projects like.. campers or camps. Not an average kitchen.. This product will not save you any money at all.. so wipe that out of your head. (unless of course you have all the tools and products necessary and you have a tiny space) Anyway. I do have some buyers remorse on this because in hindsight this was expensive for just a mediocre looking backsplash. Good luck on your search folks!