How to Tile (Trim) around splashback on a window??

[diyer2011]

Hi All,
After a bit of help, I'm trying to work out the best way to lay the tile trim around the splash back I'm doing on a window. I'm using this trim .
I'm tiling up to the bottom of the wall cabinets (one is flush to the window) so I've layed the tile trim down the side of the window/the corner where the wall and window meet and I now need to lay a horizontal piece going away from me (towards the window pane). So an external 90 degree corner really. All I seem to be able to find is guides on a 3way miter...but I only have two pieces of tile trim.

Hope this makes sense.

[Sir Ramic]

Just cut a 45 degree cut ?

[diyer2011]

That's how I thought it would work...but apparently not.

[doug boardley]

it'll work if you stand your trim up in your mitre box and not lay it flat.

[Sir Ramic]

I dont understand !!

[doug boardley]

I dont understand !!

my post Neale??

[Sir Ramic]

No Doug , the original.

[andy8758]

You need to cut either 2 x 45 degree standard mitres or 2 x 45 degree compound mitres.

Standard mitres - trims sit flat 45 degrees to each other - lie trim flat in a mitre box (buy from local DIY shed) and cut with a hack saw. Trim rough edges with stanley blade or finger file.
Compound mitres - trims stand 90 degrees to each other, but need a 45 degree cut to mitre. Stand trim on edge in mitre box and cut to 45 degrees.

[Brinkley]

or buy corner pieces .
stand trim up in mitre box so the side with the holes is at the bottom

[diyer2011]

I'll take some pictures tomorrow, perhaps I'm just being thick!
Cheers for the replies

[diyer2011]

unsurprisingly it was me being a div

it'll work if you stand your trim up in your mitre box and not lay it flat.

And here was the solution! I wasn't using a mitre box so it didn't occur to me to cut from a different direction. I grabbed a mitre box and bearing in mind this post it all made sense.

Thanks!