Brick shaped tiles - what to do at the edges?

monkey_writer

brick tiles -

the ones with bevelled edges can look a bit rough when cut as there's a large exposed cut surface.

As they are laid in a brick arrangement - overlapping each other - at all edges of the wall you will have a mixture of cut and uncut tile edges.

This is okay if you are at in internal corner, but on at external corner these cut tile edges will be visible (for instance if you were to tile the inside or outside walls of a chimneybreast.

Is there anything you could recommend to make this edge look nicer? Maybe there's a brick tile manufacturer that also makes half bricks to go with their whole bricks?

Thanks!

mikeywills

What about using a tile trim to the same thickness and colour of the tiles ou have chosen. I have always found that a trim looks neater than a tile edge.

plumb1_2

2 choices, 1-tile trim, 2- cut the tiles at 45 degress.

tawnyowls

I'm assuming by 'tile trim' that both the posters above mean the plastic trim usually sold in 2 metre lengths. There are two other options. First, you could use quarter round beading tiles, which are narrow convex tiles (sort of like a stick of rock cut lengthways), which can be used to finish off the edges of a tiled area. Otherwise, you might find that the tile range you want includes bullnose tiles, where the tile is curved over at the edge. You can see pics on here: http://www.hometime.com/Howto/projects/ctile/tile_1.htm