Overlapping a vertical tile with horizontal tile

[Prem Tiler]

I wont comment on the videos and books.

But I think looking at your pics tiling in to the corners is the last of your worries. your going to have the mother of all slivers at the window reveal.

I really think you will save your self money by taking them off and finding out more about setting out before you start. you have a whole load of trouble ahead of you if you carry on the way your going.

 

[kilty55]

i agree with prem,minnie i commend you for all your questions and wanting to know and how to do it,but i also think you should remove the tiles and re start you will get a better end result your happy with. just my opinon tho

 

[Minnie]

I wont comment on the videos and books.

But I think looking at your pics tiling in to the corners is the last of your worries. your going to have the mother of all slivers at the window reveal.

I really think you will save your self money by taking them off and finding out more about setting out before you start. you have a whole load of trouble ahead of you if you carry on the way your going.

Why am I going to have the slivers at the window reveal? I'm not tiling the window reveals.

I don't have time to start again. I need to finish by Christmas. I'm not expecting to do a professional looking job, just neatening up and cleaning up b/f's bathroom. Have you seen any "before" pictures? Just having a different colour (albeit not one I'd have chosen) makes a difference compared to the bogey green ones that were there. :lol:

 

[Minnie]

i agree with prem,minnie i commend you for all your questions and wanting to know and how to do it,but i also think you should remove the tiles and re start you will get a better end result your happy with. just my opinon tho

I can't, I'll end up having a nervous breakdown

:smilewinkgrin:

 

[kilty55]

hehe nervous breakdown i like it,,:drool5: it is an awkward little area especially for someone eho has never tiled so good on ya minnie just the setting out might have made it a bit easier for you thats all,,good luck though pal

 

[Prem Tiler]

Here is an exsample of whats gonna happen.

The red tiles are the ones you haven't fixed yet.

 

[Minnie]

hehe nervous breakdown i like it,,:drool5: it is an awkward little area especially for someone eho has never tiled so good on ya minnie just the setting out might have made it a bit easier for you thats all,,good luck though pal

I spent weeks trying to figure out how I was going to do it and have been up 'til 3 or 4.00am every night trying to figure it out.

Initially I was going to line the tiles up with the end of the window, but it was just causing me no end of bother as that left hand bit of wall above the sink was something like 30cm. I decided to continue the main wall over the sink instead. I also had to hack out some wall that was at an angle from the sink area. Then I had to decide where to start to line up grout lines, level with the sink, level with the shelf above the sink etc.

Here's how it was. See that angled little cut out by the sink. Well I got rid of that by hacking the wall out so I could put a full tile there. Obviously it meant the tiles go past the window which is why I decided to treat the main wall and wall above sink as one wall. I also chopped off a bit of the corner of the shelf as it was hard to actually tell where the edge was as it was just a blob of bumpy wall underneath.

 

[Prem Tiler]

:dizzy2:

 

[Minnie]

Here is an exsample of whats gonna happen.

The red tiles are the ones you haven't fixed yet.

Oh right, I thought you meant the sides of the windows.

Yeah, I know, it'll probably look crap but even if it is wonky and doesn't meet the sill, will it look as crap as this?

and anyhow, you know what they say about Persian carpets and the Perisan flaw, the window sill will be my Persian flaw.





















So will the walls, sink area.... :lol:

 

[Minnie]

:dizzy2:

As laid by Lambeth Council workers many years ago :lol::lol:

Now, you were saying?