Bathroom: Sloping ceiling border woes :-( - TilersForums.com

[gez777]

I've got a bit of a problem I hope someone can advise me with. I'm tiling my bathroom and I have a sloping ceiling at one end.
I am tiling the flat walls in white 25cmx33cm tiles. Where the slope meets the low flat wall I am planning on adding a border tile to
finish the join, and then continue this border around the middle of the rest of the flat walls.
The problem I have got is if I start with a whole tile above and below the border, below I go down to the floor with a nice half tile,
but above the border i go to the ceiling with around an inch gap from the last full tile. I had hoped to use full tiles either side of
the border, but it looks like I might have to cut a tile and split it over the border :-( I have tried laying them out upright and on their s
ides and I still get this small gap. Any thoughts? Has anyone worked through a similar problem? Instead of having the border in the
middle of the flat walls, i could always continue it could always continue it up from the join in the sloping wall and run it along the top
of the flat walls I suppose - I just think it would look better with the border at mid height?

Many thanks for any thoughts, Gez.

 

[Andy Allen]

can you not raise the tile so you have three quarter tile to the floor and loose the inch at the top, i normaly try and get my boarders approx 1.2 meters from the floor..

 

[DHTiling]

Turn the tile the other way.. so if tall side up then go landscape.

 

[macten]

Don't be too determined to run a border at an exact height as it doesn't usually work, as Andy says lower or raise the border to give decent sized cuts at floor and ceiling.

 

[macten]

Turn the tile the other way.. so if tall side up then go landscape.

He's already tried that Dave

 

[DHTiling]

So he has :lol:

 

[gez777]

Don't be too determined to run a border at an exact height as it doesn't usually work, as Andy says lower or raise the border to give decent sized cuts at floor and ceiling.

I am a bit stuck with the height as it is where the slope starts on the end wall, I can't go up as I don't want to run the border on the slope - as it's part of the ceiling - and going down would leave a small gap before the ceiling slope starts and i was planning on using the border to divide Ceiling and wall.

 

[Houston]

boarders for me 0.9m - 1.2meters from FFL.

 

[gez777]

Thanks for the advice guys, I think my best bet might be to run the border where I have to on the wall with the sloping ceiling and then step it up in a sort of 'Z' onto the flat walls to raise it a borders width (65mm) and loose my bad ceiling gap this way. Either that or cut a main tile in half and put it either side of the border - think that would look a bit sore though :-(

 

[Thomas Kelly]

Put some coving around ceiling that will take away small cut