Help!: Slate Mistake - Any advice appreciatted

[JPT]

Hi. Just registered, hope i'mdoing this right!!

Anyway, iv'e brickbonded a back wall of a shower/wetroom area, 3 wall surrounded and stupidly laid the slate back wall first. (hadn't picked other tiles for 2 side walls). Now 3 weeks on my girlfriend has picked cream slate effect ceramic tiles for the two side walls. Because of the natural slate back wall, my side wall tiles of course dont sit cleanly and squarely against the slates uneveness and i've realised I should have tiled the side walls before the slate back wall now!!!

Any advice on how best to get over or limit the obvious ugly finish I'm now undoubtedly going to get??? should I try and cut to the contours of the slate? take an average up the wall and have a varying wide joint of grout? etc etc?

Many thanks in the hope someone can give me some advice....

[oldgit]

you could use an angle grinder and a cut tile thickness channel for the new tiles to sit in,and be very careful.
you will still have to silicone this joint and it might not look so great.
on reflection you might just as well scribe the new tiles into the slate then silicone.

[JPT]

I hear ya, just hate big beads of silicone especially as with planning I should've realised this when using slate!!! the other way would have left such a nice fimish in comparison...but yeah, cheers, think thats my only option as the slate in situ is 12-15mm thick and my Norton blade struggled on a work bench let alone in a corner of this wetroom! Cheers again

[basshunter]

sorry misread this u can delete this if u want admin

[cornish_crofter]

One option you've got is to do what old git has suggested and then grout into the corner, then run a bead of clear silicone in the corner over the grout. This gives you the seal in the corner but without the white sealant.

Alternitively use the whet tile cutter to cut profiles of the slate in the mating tiles at the side.

Either way, it's not insurmountable.

[CJ]

Yup.......scribe each tile and either with wet cutter or if your carefull snip the profile.......then silicon