Mitre jointing - help

[fasteddie]

We are having our bathroom tiled and requested mitre joints. Our tiler is saying our tiles are not suitable for mitre joints, he gave a quick demo with his angle grinder and the ceramic all chipped and looked nasty.

They are 600 * 300. Im afraid we bought cheap tiles i think from indonesia.

Is this true as we have some doubts on the tilers ability, or are we paying for the fact we bought cheap tiles.

THe work he has done so far is pretty good, he has managed to "tile out" a number of imperfections on the walls.

He is suggesting aluminium edging as an alternative.

Is this common? You cant mitre cheap tiles?

Many thanks.
Ed

 

[Gazzer]

Are these glazed tiles? he could be right but without seeing one I couldnt be sure.

 

[doug boardley]

it's possible to mitre cheap tiles Ed without chipping the glaze, as long as the mitre is formed on an edge of the tile. The trick is to run it through the wet cutter at 45dgs, but keep the mitre a millimetre or so clear of the glaze, so at the tile edge you'll have a thickness of about a millimetre bevelled back. (Easier to do than explain)

 

[doug boardley]

these are mitred joints, the ones to the right of the pic. The lighting is casting a shadow making it look like a cut tile, but they're full tiles. And granted they're Porcelanosa tiles so not cheapies

 

[Gazzer]

These are highly glazed tiles and the glazed damaged easily when cut. To obtain the mitres I had to reverse the mitres on the half tiles so that as Doug says, I mitred 1mm away from the glaze.

 

[The D]

cut the tile on the dry cutter so it is the correct size and then as doug said miter the edge leaving 1mm to the glaze. if you run a bit of sand paper along the cut edge it will not brake out as much.

 

[marbleman]

the only way to miter edge is to wet cut , as dry cutting with grinder will chip the tile any way , to much hand shake and to try to keep angel correct .

 

[marbleman]

love the tiles sir ramic nics job sir

 

[YourTiler]

I'd rather use the mitre cutter in my Rubi than a grinder :yikes:

But the wet cutter IS the way as has been suggested above

Maybe he's too lazy to do it ?????? it's possible

 

[Gazzer]

love the tiles sir ramic nics job sir

Cheers, only a smalll job but it was something different.