Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Jul 22, 2008 9:53 am You posted excellent piece of advice on the bad tiling job, could you help me as well, please?
We will be tiling our kitchen within the next two weeks (a DIY job). We will be laying 30 by 30cm tiles with 5mm grout spaces. My Q is that we will be left with a 5 cm edge at the wall. Do we cut our tiles into thin strips and lay them at the end or should we space our tiles a bit more so that we loose this 5cm on the whole area? Unfortunately it is not big, only 2.47m by 3.2m What did you mean in the other post by "a no no to grouting tiles/wall section"???? Your advice will be very much appreciated. Maggie Re: dhess advice on tiling pretty please 2Jul 23, 2008 9:14 am Hi Maggie
Im not a tiler but i would stay with the 5mm grout line and cut the wall tiles. as for the grouting, i assume you meant not to grout the gap between the tiles and the wall, the only reason i can think of is that tiles need room for expansion, a tile silicone/caulk woulb be best used there. Re: dhess advice on tiling pretty please 3Jul 23, 2008 9:48 am Ah, thanks MT , this explains it. Yes I have noticed that in many homes the grout between say bench tops and tiles crumbles away in no time and leaves a gap through which water gets in. This happened in our home and this is the reason our bench top started to rot. Now we are renovating and I want to avoid all the problems caused by our c.....y builder all those years ago, they went bust by the way so no way we could have corrected all the faults .
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