Closing cuts

[Stef]

Ok, so how about fake grout lines cut in with the wet saw on a light plunge cut? No no or yeah yeah?!

Yip, done it when I put in a travertine floor & they wanted trav skirting.
Mitred the external edge & the grout line was close so I put in a fake grout line & no one ever knew.

 

[Rich Midge]

Yes true a closure should only be used whe the untrained eye does not notice but a door is an opening game everybody looks through an opening not above

Exactly my point mate, a good closure is one you don't see. As for looking through an opening, true for everyone but us tilers! I always look above a door, closure or not it tends to be where mistakes get lost.

 

[Stef]

Exactly my point mate, a good closure is one you don't see. As for looking through an opening, true for everyone but us tilers! I always look above a door, closure or not it tends to be where mistakes get lost.

If it's put in for asthetics then it's ok.
I done it on a job above the door, took about 70mm off the tile & polished up the edge, you wouldn't have known it was done unless you used a tape measure.

 

[Rich Midge]

If it's put in for asthetics then it's ok.
I done it on a job above the door, took about 70mm off the tile & polished up the edge, you wouldn't have known it was done unless you used a tape measure.

Which is exactly how they should be used. Seen some awful use of closures though in days gone by and when tiles were smaller. I remember looking at walls in a chippy all tiled in 6x6 whites, 2 inch closure up the centre of each door. Just lazy tiling.