cooker hood

[dhsanta65]

Hi all, quick question, will be doing a kitchen splash back in a few weeks and will have to go up round the chimney style cooker hood.
Do you tile round or is it easy enough to just loosen off and slip the tile in that way to get a neater job or does it have to come off ???
Cheers Ian

 

[Fred]

you can't really loosen it mate, you have to cut around then tidy up with Silicon.

 

[Fekin]

Either remove the cooker hood and tile behind or cut around and Silicon, though the first way will look far better if removing is possible.

 

[DHTiling]

It really depends on the venting of the hood as to whether you can remove to tile or there might be flyover between the units etc and this will altering to accomodate the tile thickness.....
I have cut around a few hoods over the years and once you have done one it is easy and quick and neat.......

But if you can remove then do so...coz it will be quicker and neater......just be careful with the electrics etc.....

good luck...

 

[Turkish]

Hi mate, i had to tile round one with a slightly curved glass hood bit, right pain, took a long time but tiling behind it wasn`t possible otherwise the screw holes to fix the glass hood wouldn`t have lined up. Just cut round and siliconed. There`s a picture of it in the gallery somewhere mate, don`t know how to put it back on here.

Good luck

Turkish

 

[DHTiling]

You mean this one turkish....🙂

 

[Turkish]

That`s it cheers Dave. Hopefully it`s a reasonable example, but dhsanta65 try to avoid the small cuts at the edges as shown in mine. A little learning point for me there!

Turkish

 

[salmonfisher]

I have never tiled round a extractor i always remove them

 

[Daz]

Finished a job today, by coincedence, around a cooker hood that is almost identical to the pic above. I removed the glass section and tiled around the rest. When the glass went back on it looked the dogs danglies!

 

[Turkish]

Lucky there then Captain! Would have liked to have been able to do that but couldn`t on that one!

Turkish