Tiling - bad edge on outside or inside?

Apr 30, 2007 3 Replies

I am tiling a shower cubicle. The upper half of the cubicle has tiles, whereas the wall that it butts to doesn't.



The corner is is an outside corner (270 degrees as opposed to a normal



90 degree inside corner). This means that the edge of the tile is visible.

I am having to cut the tiles to size using one of those motorised tile cutters. This is great but doesn't leave a perfect edge. There are slight nicks etc out of the glaze.



So my question is, do I put the bad edge on the corner, or against the next tile? I am leaning toward against the next tile so at least the grout will disguise a lot of the imperfections, but wondered if there was a standard way of doing this?



Cheers, Lister



Use the plastic edging strip that is very easyly available. This will:

a) Hide the cut edge of the tile. b) Protect the edge of the tiles from knocks. c) Provide a nice smooth profile for the edge.

Ah yes! I know the stuff.

Thanks both.

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