28mm worktop - gap below wall tiles

dancenzo

After searching for ages I have finally found a glass effect laminate worktop I like but it only comes in 28mm thickness. We currently have 38mm worktop so there would be a gap between the new worktop and existing wall tiles. I can't afford to retile and got the tiles cheap somewhere so not sure I could get any more. Any ideas as to how I could fill the gap without it looking a mess? I saw this worktop in a magazine and they had a row of long rectanglar glass tiles above the worktop but don't know where to get these or if it would look funny with the other stone effect wall tiles above.

majjie

You could try glass mosaic tiles - just cut a single strip to fill the gap.
Some tile ranges have thin border tiles too - they might do (but I suspect they'd be pricey).

If you have bigger oblong tiles which overlap the ones above, it might look odd ... unless you can take off a row of the existing tiles and make the new ones look like a border. If you do that - then glass tiles might look good ... it's quite trendy to have glass feature tiles amongst stone effect ones.
Original Style do glass tiles in lots of colours and sizes - but they're pricey too.

Pretani

As you only have 10mm to fill, I would say it wouldn't look right if you try to fill the gap above with tiles or strips etc. I would think about raising the worktop up by installing a 10mm riser under the worktop. You could cover this riser with the same laminate as the worktop and make it look like a bevelled edge of the worktop, or you could have the riser covered with a strip similar to the units and the overhang of the worktop will hide it.

ALEXINUK

You might want to have a look at these website about tile borders: www.tileborder.co.uk, it seems that they have some information about border tiles and dado rail tiles.

majjie wrote: »

You could try glass mosaic tiles - just cut a single strip to fill the gap.
Some tile ranges have thin border tiles too - they might do (but I suspect they'd be pricey).

If you have bigger oblong tiles which overlap the ones above, it might look odd ... unless you can take off a row of the existing tiles and make the new ones look like a border. If you do that - then glass tiles might look good ... it's quite trendy to have glass feature tiles amongst stone effect ones.
Original Style do glass tiles in lots of colours and sizes - but they're pricey too.

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Pretani wrote: »

As you only have 10mm to fill, I would say it wouldn't look right if you try to fill the gap above with tiles or strips etc. I would think about raising the worktop up by installing a 10mm riser under the worktop. You could cover this riser with the same laminate as the worktop and make it look like a bevelled edge of the worktop, or you could have the riser covered with a strip similar to the units and the overhang of the worktop will hide it.

That would be my solution as well.;)

Scoobs72

Raise the legs on the units, or jack up the units and put 10mm chipboard underneath the legs. You'll need a wider plinth underneath as well (potentially), but if that's not available buy some colour matched end panels and make your own plinths out of them

MX5huggy

Do they sell matching upstand that you can put at the back to cover the gap?