Attention to detail question on corners

[blue_max]

I know it probably is broad as long, but is there a convention to tiling into corners with two cut edges. Obviously one goes 'under' the other, but does it look better to have the uppermost tile along the line of sight, rather than towards you.

This is quite difficult to explain, but hope you get my jist. Essentially, is there any reason to choose which should go under from an aesthetic point of view.

Thank you.

 

[Andy Allen]

Imo it doesn't make any difference once the corner is finished with a neat line of mastic you can't tell either way. .

 

[blue_max]

Thank you. That's fair enough. I was rather thinking of recessing the Silicon slightly to better match the grouting. But maybe that degree of precision is a rod for my own back!

 

[Andy Allen]

If you want to be anal about it. .lol then it looks better to have the cut tile in the line of sight....
So if tiling round a bath tile the back wall first then the 2 side walls. ..

 

[blue_max]

It's my own bathroom, so I don't really care how long it takes. Anal is the name of the game with tiling I think. It needs millimetre precision as the grout lines are all in-line. How you guys do this stuff quickly is beyond me. I'm into my fourth year on this bathroom, but the end is in sight :lol:

Almost every aspect of tiling throws up questions. It may be obvious, but my fear is I will end up doing something daft and ruin the whole thing. Guess I've got to stop reading and start putting tiles on the wall!

 

[Andy Allen]

Four years to tie a bathroom. .:lol:

No such thing as a daft question anything you want to know just fire away...

 

[blue_max]

That's good to know!

I'm just looking at buying some more tiles as they are clearance stock at my local tile supplier and have a worry...

I have a larger entrance hall which I have found some nice tiles for. There are some stairs down to my basement and a small landing. Off to one-side is a small utility room. Straight on is the bedroom. These tiles are light coloured and they also have some which are essentially black. I'd love to use these in the utility room.

However, if I use the light coloured tiles in the main hallway, it would make sense to use them in the small landing at the bottom of the stairs as they would be visible together.

But the 'problem' would be that the small landing would be one tile, the utility another and the bedroom another again.

Is that too much?

The real answer would be to use the same throughout the basement, but I do love the black tiles. Please tell me if I'm going to end up with a mess!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Your going to end up with a mess!

 

[Andy Allen]

I would prefer to see the same tile......
But as always its personal choice. .

 

[WetSaw]

You might get away with having the hall,stairs and landing in the same tile and all of the rooms in another (all the same) but I think you already know the best answer....

 

[blue_max]

Tell it like it is guys :yikes:

Thanks for you opinions which as you suspected, I totally agree with.

Wish I wasn't the client and contractor!

 

[blue_max]

OK, slightly broadening it out - I have an en-suite shower room off the bedroom. It has a walk-in shower set into the screed. One of these slopes down to a linear drain. My intention was to have the whole basement in the same light, glossy tile, but clearly you can't have a walk-in shower in glossy tile. So, unless I can find a nice, inexpensive, tile in both gloss and anti-slip finishes, I am going to struggle with that concept.
Maybe I have a different tile in every room!
But I can get some of the darker tiles I used in the upstairs bathroom, so maybe that would be a plan? Ahhhh! Too much choice!
And you think laying them is a struggle :lol:

 

[charlie1]

Blue max, this is the thing about tiling... And your similar to me I think on this one. Tiling 'in theory' seems relatively straight forward. Trust me, be the end of one wall, you will be in such a mess with it, you won't care what way looks best, you will be defeated with adhesive everywhere wondering if you should just clean up and hire a pro. Don't be too anal, 5mm grout joints are my advice to you and non rectified tiles!!! Oh, and forget brick bond!!! Good luck mate

 

[Daz]

Hi Blue_Max, I've got to be honest and I got bored reading all these posts :yikes:
I did pass across the post about gloss tiles and a wetroom floor, and just wanted to say that I have a honed and polished limestone on my wetroom floor. My family have never found it to be slippery and the room is used daily. The tiles can be slippery when wet, but you are stood in a shower zone so not walking or running and unlikely to be skidding and breaking ankles, IMO. Choose the tiles that give you the best look and fit them properly so that they last forever and everyone comments about the superb job you have done!
good luck!

 

[blue_max]

Thanks guys. Daz, I guess you are right about the slippery thing. We have a bath in the bathroom and that is glossy and isn't generally slippery. Guess I shouldn't limit my choice.

I need to stop thinking and start tiling!