12"x24" tile - shower wall - 7/16"/11.1mm - what width Schluter?
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Comments (5)First, I owe you an apology. I didn't catch that it was "U" shaped, or hollow, I thought it was a solid bar. Hopefully this will work. If you can, nip two 45 degree cuts in the top and bottom flanges of the material. The two 45 degree cuts on each flange will met to form a 90 degree angle with the point of the angle right at the back side of the 1" face. Have them meet a tad over 1/4" from the end of the trim piece, say 5/16ths-inch from the end of the trim piece. You'll lose a little metal when you make the bend. So the "point" of the two 45s will meet about 5/16ths of an inch from the end of your trim piece. Now grab the face with a pair of marr-free pliers and bend the face back to form a 1/4" return. I wrote "1/4-inch return", but you can make the return as long as you need. If you tile is 1/4" thick and your thinset is 1/8" thick and you want no thinset to show, then you'll need a 3/8" return. Add 1/16th and make your cuts 7/16ths from the end of the trim piece, again, planning on losing about 1/16" of metal in the radius of the bend. If you want the return to be the same size at the tile is thick, then make the cuts 5/16th" from the end, when you bend it you'll have about a 1/4" return. Make that return bend, THEN cut your trim piece to length on the end that'll be at the wall-wall corner. That way if you mess it up you have suitable length to try again. See my very rudimentary schematic below. This is sort of what I'm talking about. Try to imagine that you're looking at the piece from above as it'll be installed in the wall. The "X"s are the flange. The show face of the material is right below the X's, it's the underline. The two slashes show the two 45-degree cuts that form a 90 degree angle, the material between the slashes is removed. XXX\/XXXXXXXXXXX Now fold back the part made up of the three X's 90 degrees so the two slashes come together and it'll resemble something like this: [X [X [XXXXXXXXXXXXX I hope that makes sense!...See MoreHow to put 12 x 24 tile in shower
Comments (7)How you arrange the tiles is purely esthetics and only you can answer that one. Who is doing the tiling? Have you looked at inspiration pictures on Houzz? You will need to plan every detail of the layout before you start. That means very detailed drawings to accommodate the grout width and the exact tile dimensions. My tiles are 12x24" but not really, more like 11 something and 23 something. You don't want to have a sliver of tile at the top or the bottom of the layout. I center my tile on the wall area so that it is equal tiles top and bottom, side to side. you will need to figure out how you will lay them, squared or staggered. If there is any bow to the tiles, and there very well could be, you will want to do squared, or a 1/4 or 1/3 (or so) staggered. Not a 50%, because the distortion in the tiles will be very obvious. How are your wrapped walls going to line up? This needs to be determined as well. Are you going to have a niche, if so that is another element that you just don't want to through in there without careful planning of how it will lay with the tile layout. Remember, go to Houzz dot com to look at pictures if you haven't already. ps it seems with my 12x24 bathroom, there was a lot of wasted material. I had to do a lot of cutting of almost every tile. You might want to revisit if 12x24 is really what you want. I wouldn't do it again, I don't believe. I could be wrong about the wastage and it would be interesting is someone that has done more tiling them me to weigh in on the subject of wastage....See More2 Part Tile Questions: Tile Grout Width & Right Angle Cuts
Comments (2)1/16th versus 3/32nds, I hate to say this, but it's up to you. You do good work. you're conscientious. If your wall is flat, if you have good trowel technique in terms of keeping a steady angle as you put thinset on the wall so you put an even amount of thinset on the wall, you can probably get good results with 1/16th. The tile is rectified. That's good. Your wall is flat. Doubly good. If the tile is flat, which it should be, you should be triply good to go. I like a Felker TM-7 blade. Sometimes cross-branded under Husqvarna, but it's a Felker blade. I use it for hard porcelains and even granite. It's my favorite go to blade with porcelain. When cutting inside "L" cuts, I have a moving table saw. I'll slide the table forward, cutting into the tile. When I get to my stop line, I'll rotate the front edge of the tile (the end away from me) up into the blade, keeping the rear edge of the tile (next to me) "hinged" to the fence of the sliding table. It squares the cut. I get a nice clean inside cut. The larger the tile, then sometimes the less you can hinge the tile up. If need be, and it's usually not, I can clean up the inside 90 with the light touch of a grinder. If a picture is worth a thousand words, let me know, I'll post a photo....See MoreNeed advice for tile on shower niche
Comments (59)Catlady999 the light over the shower was installed by a licensed electrician who was doing a bunch of other work in the house but thank you for bringing that up! *Update* good news: my mom said she's going to tell the guy to stop working in the bathroom area and just focus on getting the other things (painting, drywall) so hopefully this means we'll be getting a real professional who knows what they're doing!...See Moreseosmp
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