Skirting Tile advice

[steve11]

Hi,
My first post fellas so here goes:-
I have laid a bathroom floor using 10mm thick porcelain floor tiles and I want to use the same tiles as skirting tile.

My question is, if I buy wall tiles that are less than 10mm thick will the skirting tile look odd with a 'lip/ledge' on it where they meet ?

In other words do skirting tiles always have to be flush with the wall tiles above?

Thanks for any advice you can give me...

[Dave]

I don't think so..will fine both ways imho..

[365drills]

The first thing I am wondering is if the colours of the wall tile, the floor tile and the skirting tile are the same. If the colours are all the same (same tile) then the effect will look like an inset detail, rather than a skirting board and you may lose the effect you want to create.

If the skirting board is a different colour and fitted flush it will also look like a detail.

If the skirting board is a different colour and it protrudes then it will of course look like a skirting board.

So then if the effect you are looking for is a skirting then you need a contrast colour and for it to stick out. Otherwise it will just look like a boarder / pattern break.

The only other time it does look like a skirting board when its actually the same colour as the tile is when the wall is painted. We have done a lot of villas in spain where the walls are painted and the floors tiled with 12mm thick. And then the edges are capped with the same tile. Then they do look like skirting.