Tiling a curved plinth

[kelvin]

Has anyone any examples of tiling an upstand off the floor around a curved section.

rgds,

kelvin.

 

[White Room]

Your going to have to slice the tile to the amount of angle you have...

 

[kelvin]

Have you seen a mosaic tile used to do this to contrast another tile used on the floor?

 

[White Room]

A mosaic would good but if it's a tight curve a paper faced one would be better because the meshed backed one would close the joints on the curve whereas the paper faced would keep an even joint....

 

[AliGage]

You could do it with a mesh mosaic but may have to slice it into strips to get even joints.
Marc (3_fall) has just done a big mosaic job where he's had to tweak things quite a bit. He'd be able to help and advise if mosaics was the way you go with it.

 

[Old Mod]

Have you seen a mosaic tile used to do this to contrast another tile used on the floor?

depends which way your curve is going. The blue are 20x20 mesh and pink 10x10 paper faced.

 

[kelvin]

Very nice that's what I was looking at trying to achieve but what would I use to form the curve off the floor ....it's in an upstairs bathroom..

 

[Old Mod]

Very nice that's what I was looking at trying to achieve but what would I use to form the curve off the floor ....it's in an upstairs bathroom..

To form the basic shape use plaster coving then blend in with adhesive.

 

[kelvin]

Ok...
it would need reinforcing behind as there is a void behind the cove...but I get the idea...

 

[Old Mod]

Ok...
it would need reinforcing behind as there is a void behind the cove...but I get the idea...

Cut back of cove off so that the leading edges of cove are virtually flush with the wall and stick and support with tile adhesive.

 

[MTiler]

Or you can use a quick drying render, using a plate/saucer etc. to get the radius you want, and will be square.

 

[MTiler]

Or are you talking about something like this :

 

[Dougs Third Go]

Cut back of cove off so that the leading edges of cove are virtually flush with the wall and stick and support with tile adhesive.

hope you don't do that on your canopy Marc :yikes: lol!

 

[Old Mod]

hope you don't do that on your canopy Marc :yikes: lol!

hahaha :rofl:

 

[kelvin]

Cut back of cove off so that the leading edges of cove are virtually flush with the wall and stick and support with tile adhesive.

This is what I was initially thinking about but was concerned as how the corners are finished and if you do start to form the curve around the base of the wall how does it look for external corners to keep the flow of the shape?