Trim After Tiling

[Bill]

Those tiles should have a wide joint on them too..... to hide the irregular size of the tiles........ these tiles do not NEED a trim but it is a choice you should have had.

The white gout is also highlighting the joints......personally, I would used a grey grout.

 

[Just Rizzle]

did the guy do it on a labour only price, and you supplied the materials?

 

[Gazza1]

Thanks again guys.

Aside from the window it looks much better in the flesh than it does in the photos. Not sure why this is - I suppose in person the eye is probably not drawn to specific parts of the pattern but instead takes in the whole thing.

I supplied the tiles but the tiler supplied everything else.

I didn't know about joint sizes (wasn't told about this) and definitely was not given a trim option (which I why I assumed a trim would be fitted).

Not sure I can now justify the expense of fitting a trim and getting another tiler to install it (a different one).

You live and learn I guess although I imagine you guys are experts and probably perfectionists too (which is a good thing) 😀

Not sure what to do now. It does look much better in person than in the photos though and many DIY tiling jobs I've seen look much worse 😎

 

[Ian]

It wouldn't be a huge job to remove the tiles in the window reveal and replace once a trim had been fitted, as someone has already mentioned, it'd be worth adding a piece of plasterboard to the cill while you're doing it, to lose the small cut at the bottom of the side reveals.

 

[Alan.P]

it'd be worth adding a piece of plasterboard to the cill while you're doing it, to lose the small cut at the bottom of the side reveals.

Then you gonna have to re-do the windowsill bottom cuts as well Bri 😉 but yeah, another option 🙂

 

[Andy Allen]

Won't the tiler come back and re-do the cill with trim..

 

[Gazza1]

Won't the tiler come back and re-do the cill with trim..

I suspect not - just a feeling. I would probably approach someone else in any case.

Aside from the cill the walls aren't bad - the photos don't do justice to the fact that it looks okay and maybe even pretty good. I think the overall effect of the lines of columns takes the eye away from irregularities within the columns. I did notice irregularities in the grout lines but only because I was looking and to be honest I didn't notice that the lines weren't straight until it was pointed out.

It would have been better to have bought regular edge tiles but the pros and cons of different styles, finishes and colours together with my naïveté meant we went for these ones.

I wonder how much I would be looking at to ask someone to fit a trim to the cill.

 

[Andy Allen]

Depends how much patching needs doing after removing the tiles.
I would allow and charge half a day for that.

 

[lizzardtong]

I know schluter makes stainless steel retrofit trims.

 

[Old Mod]

I know schluter makes stainless steel retrofit trims.

That's how I nearly cut my thumb in half,
trying to retro fit a plastic trim! Haha
I don't retro fit trims anymore! Haha