Kitchen tile trim - too late?

bluedrop

Hi all,
When we got our kitchen done, the tradesman was in a massive rush to finish and move on. He apparantly got a new contract. Needless to say, our finish is pathetic. He quickly did the tiling behind the counter top and forgot to put in a trim. When I confronted, he made a think beading like thing with grout and messed it up even further. It looks awful now

is there anyway I can rectify this without spending a lot of money? Can I fix a trim on it now? Or would it look nice if I just paint over the grout in a nice dark colour?

benje302

If the tiler forgot to add the trim, why dont you get him back and finish off the job properly ? - if you have paid him already you might find it difficult.

bluedrop

benje302 wrote: »

If the tiler forgot to add the trim, why dont you get him back and finish off the job properly ? - if you have paid him already you might find it difficult.

He is EXTREMELY annoying and totally useless. I dont want him back again.

pmartin86

Quite fiddly and wont look perfect, but I once had a similar situation (Tiles with no trim) and with a bot of time and patience i was able to remove the part of a plastic trim that normally sits behind the tiles and "glued" the remaining bit it to the edge of the tiles, wasn't perfect. but wasn't too bad either, depends on how fussy you are I suppose?

DaftyDuck

Stick a photo up, maybe?

hebridean

I'm presently also tiling my kitchen with blue metro tiles against a similarly coloured painted plasterboard wall. The local diy shop only carried white edging which i didn't fancy so i've tiled as normal but kept the adhesive away from the edges of the finishing tiles. I then intend either covering the biscuit coloured edges thinly in grout or as i've done before paint carefully with nail varnish the same colour as the tile.

phoebe1989seb

hebridean wrote: »

I'm presently also tiling my kitchen with blue metro tiles against a similarly coloured painted plasterboard wall. The local diy shop only carried white edging which i didn't fancy so i've tiled as normal but kept the adhesive away from the edges of the finishing tiles. I then intend either covering the biscuit coloured edges thinly in grout or as i've done before paint carefully with nail varnish the same colour as the tile.

We recently did something very similar - with grout, not nail varnish - as we couldn't get a trim or thin border tile we liked that matched our ridiculously expensive but extremely nice hand made Moroccan arabesque tiles from FE.......it looks perfectly acceptable imho - and I'm pretty darn fussy, lol

Ninnut85

I just ran a bead of silicone sealent along the top of time. Smooth down with your finger and it gives quite a nice looking finish.