As an observer of interesting things, I have seen a tile that was mostly used on very old (50's, 60's) tile installations, mostly in bathrooms. Where a row of horizontal bullnosed wall tiles meets a row of vertical bullnosed tiles, the tile in the corner sometimes had a little tiny bullnose on the intersecting corner. I know that this tile was factory made and not filed off in the field, because the little bullnose "notch" is glazed. Question is... what is this particular tile with the little bullnose on one corner called? I drew a quick pic for clarity.
That I don't know, - - I don't do commercial work at all, - - but I do know (for residential) it's tough, if not impossible to even find an 'available' base tile anymore, - - let alone bull-nose corners 'n all that.
I did tile my upstairs bathroom with those 'inside' corner tiles (on the border tiles) though, - - that was about (14??) years ago, - - have never been able to find anymore since then. Maybe it's an 'area' thing??
Usually, on the older houses around here (like mine), - - you would use 4 X 4 field tiles, - - with 2 X 6 border tiles, - - and when you make that 'vertical-to-horizontal' turn you speak of, - - you'd use a matching 2 X 2 'inside-corner-tile' to make the turn. Gives a real nice detail.
If the tile isn't manufactured that way, that's what you resort to.
How else do you do your corners? caulk them? yuck! Only in a bathroom do I caulk corners.
Or worse, leave an edge showing on corner
I've cut 45s on corners a few times and customer liked detail
If it has to be perfect corner. Sell a Laufen tile. I know for a fact they have outside/inside corner pieces.
If you want to get fancy, Check out Schluter "Rondec" for outside corners and "Dilex" for inside corners and movement/control joints
They do still sell inside 1/4 bullnose, just nowadays you have to go to a tile store to get them... HD and etc don't carry em. IF you find a decent dude at HD, they will order you some though. I have had to 45 a few in my time but its sorta like crown, you are taking off from the back and the face won't have that sharp edge, unless you are trying to run it though too fast.
Anyhow, they do still make em, just takes some digging, the new thing is no bullnose except on showers.
Oh ya, the peice is called a cove outcorner or cove incorner, bullnose isn't baseboard, cove is.
Mike, - - I don't see it there among their choices, - - although 'Florida-Tile' is the brand name of the tile that I did my bathroom in, - - and they had it (at least at the time).
Indeed, that's exactly the piece I was referring to. the one at the intersectin with the little tiny inside bullnose on the corner of the one tile. That tile didn't appear in Mike's link.
(just bring your photo up in MS Paint and pick 'image', 'stretch/skew', and type something like 50% for horizontal and vertical and see how that goes. That's the quickest way I know about)
Now I see what you are referring to. Those would be nice to have. It seems with the preferences today we can't even get outside corners 99% of the time. I can probably win the lottery before I ever found an inside corner available in tile we install. Inside and outside corners like that now are all being forty-fived.
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