45 degree angles

[minion]

Hello,
Looking for a little advice please. We need to tile a wall that has a 45 degree angle (rougly) and I assumed I could get a trim to suit it but the tile shop said they dont do any to suit.

Whats the best thing to do to finnish the tiling off? Was thinking of tunning white silicone?

Ideas appreciated.

thank you

[doug boardley]

is it an external angle?

[Oli]

When you say a 45 degree angle what do you mean, the pitch of the ceiling, a corner???

Photo's are always helpfull if you could take some and post em up.

[doug boardley]

maybe one of our sponsors will have a trim

[brian c]

does it need to meet with another trim at the ends at all?

[minion]

Sorry I should have be clearer,

it is not easy to explain.

Imagine a hexagon shape, if you were tiling a hexigon there would be gaps where the tiles meet.

The wall is at an angle like a hexagon. (if that makes sence?)

[doug boardley]

are you tiling the inside or outside of your hexagon, minion?

[minion]

are you tiling the inside or outside of your hexagon, minion?

Sorry, the outside.

[brian c]

you can bend plastic trim around it by taking notches out the back of the trim to allow it to bend.It can be done with metal trim put a little more trickier.

[doug boardley]

I think minion is on about vertical corners Bri, personally I'd mitre them, like below


the corner on the left is an external mitre, the one on the right an internal mitre

[brian c]

oh ok,i get ya.
nice mitring DOUG.

[tileexperts]

yes, i agree doug. i would mitre the tile, and have a grout joint, i would not use silicone or a trim.

maybe the lads would correct me if they think its wrong, but wat i did b4 was mitre one tile at 45 and put the next one up to it with your desired grout joint.

[brian c]

TE...if it worked and the customer was happy then thats what matters .

[tileexperts]

TE...if it worked and the customer was happy then thats what matters .

yes. it was perfect, but it was marble, think i have a pic. ill post it if i can find it.

[minion]

Thats the type of wall!

What tool would I use to mitre them? I have done it before with skirtings etc but dont have a tool for doing it with tiles.

Where can I buy one? and what would I call it?

Cheers

[whitebeam]

A wet cutter

[tileexperts]

well the best tool would be a wet saw,
you could get a simple and cheap one in b&q.
but if it was me, i would go and hire a professional one from a HSS Hire.
some of those simple cheap are not that great.

best of luck mate.

[doug boardley]

you need to be able to tilt the table top or blade through to 45 dgs, I mitred both corners to within about 2mm of the face of the tile to soften the corner and to stop the glaze chipping

[stevee]

tileexpert, what a great tip, just mitre one side, brilliant,steve