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Filling a gap in a tiled floor?

We have a tiled bathroom floor. The tiling butts up against the skirting board.

We are going to re-tile the bathroom walls, and plan to leave the floor tiles 'as is' but this throws up a problem. If we remove the skirting to wall tile down as far as the floor, there will be the width of a skirting-board size gap between the existing floor tiles and the new wall tiles.

This must be a fairly common problem with bathroom refurb sand I wondered what the solution could be. Is there a ceramic in-fill bead for instance? Or some other product that could be used to fill the gap?

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  • phill99
    phill99 Posts: 9,093 Forumite
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    The gap wipont be skirting board width. Your tiles are probably 8mm and you will have 3 mm of adhesive, so you probably have 7 mm of gap.

    I would grout it with the same colour as the floor.
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  • You could do a cement type edging the same as you grout the tiles with and maybe colour it to suit either wall or floor ones.
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