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Discuss tiling archways in the Tiling Forum at Tilers Forum; hey everybody, hows it going. I would like to know how do you tile an archway. Is their a certain tool you use to cut the tile with a nice ...
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    hey everybody, hows it going. I would like to know how do you tile an archway. Is their a certain tool you use to cut the tile with a nice finish...what tool do you use and how do you tile it.

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    Are you tiling the internals too or just the outside?
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    Just heat them up with a blow torch and bend them

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    Hello and welcome... What tiles are you using.?

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    Hi and welcome
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    welcome!

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    Curves are normally tiled with mosaics. You can do that as a feature even if the rest of the walls have full sized tiles. Someone posted a thread here recently with ideas on feature alcoves - a few good ideas for you there.

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    im not tiling an archway...just wanted advise on how too thats all. Its great to get some info if i can. i never did tile one but you never know what comes along the path of a tile setter : )

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    i think deanotile posted a thread on the subject a while back. you may find it if you do a search

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    Angle grinder with diamond blade for curves you can bend edging strip round on the inside splice the tiles work evenly from both sides

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    Deano done a good post on an arch setting out for tiling an arch
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