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Is it okay to butt corners if no trim is available? It seems a miter would be too sharp.
 
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My cheap MK saw's table does angle up to mitre but it doesn't leave a great finish on the one piece I tried. It seems to chip more when the tile is cut finished side down. I can buy bullnose in a different tile that may look ok since they would only be the door jams and extend inside the door about an inch.
 

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Hi Craig, sounds like you may be just cutting too much into the tile and creating a really thin cut at the end into the glaze which is causing the glaze to chip as its being cut from behind. You want to try leave a 1mm or so of the biscuit of the tile edge you are cutting to mitre so you don't actually cut into the glaze or chip it.

Here is a video of a fellow american explaining it which will probably help better. You can skip to 3 minutes in if you don't want to watch it all.

 
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Thank you Tony, I will try again. I also found some bull nosed tiles that will look very close. They all will be on a different plane than the rest, just around the door jamb so only about an inch will be inside the door. I will have to buy one more box of the wall tile to mitre if I go that root and only end up using only two of the tiles.
 
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