Show us your mitres | mitred tiles - Tile Advice

[Ian]

A thread for mitred corners

Feel free to add these to the Media in the Mitred Tiles category we created a bit ago too.

Mitred Tiles

 

[John Benton]

 

[Ian]

Mitred metros, I've not done this yet, looks grand.

 

[John Benton]

Quicker and easier than scribing internal corners Bri....

 

[Old Mod]

Some will have seen these already, but it's the best I got
Mitred decorative 6mm glass
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Mitred External corner at clients request.

• Old Mod
• May 31, 2015

 

[AliGage]

I hate metros with trim @Bri

 

[Qwerty]

I've tried to persuade my customers to mitre their metros but they always seem to decline! I will work harder to change their minds in the future as it looks so much nicer. One concern my customers always have is the finished mitred edge being sharp and/ or chipping easily. The glaze on some metros is awful

 

[AliGage]

The traditional one above is a crackle glass metro. No chipping, any sharpness (which is rare) soon gets taken away with a few rubs of 120grit paper.

 

[Simons70]

 

[D man]

What do you guys use to mitre porcelain? Tried it with porcelanosa tiles and they all chipped

 

[p4ulo]

Wow, mitred Metros.
I didn't even think you could....
as D man says, what tools???
I'm guessing a wet-saw with a very fine cut blade??

 

[AliGage]

Wow, mitred Metros.
I didn't even think you could....
as D man says, what tools???
I'm guessing a wet-saw with a very fine cut blade??

All of them, with the exception of the white mini metros were done on my DeWalt DW2400 with the standard blade that came with it.

The mini whites were done on my Norton Clipper bridge with the "clipper classic" blade.

Both straight forward,basic ceramic blades.

The only key thing is not to pull through the cut at all. Bring the blade to it and just put your hand behind it literally to stop the rotation pushing the machine back. The blade does 100% of the work.

 

[D man]

Did this a year back with limestone and it was no probs but tried it with the porcelain and couldn't get a neat finish

 

[AliGage]

On the subject of mitres and metros.
How do you guys deal with internal corners?

 

[John Benton]

Haha these are the time consumers Ali......

I go fully into the corner and then scribe the adjacent tile into it. So I use the wet cutter on the bevel at the angle of the bevel (if you get me) and then scribe and snap along the face between the two cuts.

And don't you just love siliconing the internal corners