Dilemma

[jimbob]

Just a quickie... I have dry laid tiles either side of cooker splashback to corners.

Currently, starting with full tile either side of splashback and with 2mm spacers, it leaves me with about 20mm from the corner, which is a bit too big of a gap to silcone in with the adjoining wall tiles IMO, and a bit too narrow a cut to look good.

To my mind, I have 2 options:
1. Start with half a tile either side of splashback and cut tile to fit in corner
2. Increase spacers to 3mm which should leave gap of about 7mm in corner (wall is about 13 tile widths long)

Tiles are 10cm square so increasing spacer size to 3mm may look a little silly. Shall I just bite the bullet and start with a half tile? Any other options?

Also, anyone suggest any good quality but reasonably priced metal square edged tile trim??

Cheers
Jimbob

[TMTservices]

Start with half tile matey IMO!

7mm still a little on large side gap wise. I've used 3mm on 100mm squares before and it don't look bad tho I prefer to use 2mm.

Genesis my prefered choice of trim tho not the cheapest but IMO look and feel a far better quality than trade trims from topps say.

Don't forget your sockets when setting out. It may be best to start with slightly less/More than half tile in order to get sockets looking good.

Only negative to starting with half tile next to splashback is the cut edge next to it. Can look rough if using snapper but wet saw should give a good enough cut. Plus a bead of siicone can easily cover rough edge.

[jimbob]

Cheers, i think I'll just bite the bullet. It's a shame, because the entire wall is only about 20mm out from being perfect cut wise

Incidentally, the 7mm gap at the end if I increased the spacer size would have reduced once I'd tiled the adjoining wall, to a gap of about 3mm to silicone

Never mind!

Have looked at Genesis and pretty much decided that was the one to go for unless any other possibles were mentioned here. Only other one I could find was Schluter, but the prices....

[david campbell]

can you not start with a 3/4 cut leaving a 45mm cut going into the cormer!

[jimbob]

can you not start with a 3/4 cut leaving a 45mm cut going into the cormer!

I'll try, just depends on the sockets I suppose.......

[timeless john]

Always start with what is aesthetically appealing at the cooker splashback - full tiles.
Unless the 100mm tiles are multicoloured the 20mm cut will be fine into the cornes.
Schluter do square brushed alliminium which is competitively priced.

[Dave]

I'm with john..just put the cut in...they are small tiles so will look fine...

[doug boardley]

if the tiles are tumbled or wavey edged, i quite often use 4mm spacers like the ones on the photies I posted on your kitchen splashback thread

[garythetiler]

am i being obtuse or are you simply asking to centre the tile on centre or centre the joint on centre? if this is the case i would centre the tile and have a 70mm cut either side rather than a 20mm cut either side