Tile Baseboards --

Mike Finley

How much of this do you see? I seem to be doing it more and more lately. At first it wasn't such a big deal, but now it's kind of a pain. Not only having to work with the 22 degree corners involved in rounded drywall corners, but it's kind of screwing with my schedule since when not installing tile base I would lay the tile floor and then the next day grout. With the tile base I either have to install the tile base as I go or do it the next day before grouting, but then I have to deal with the issues of it being delicate and not fully set up. I realized today I need to up the price for it because of the PITA factor.

dsnAK

Mike - I've done a few. I did treat them as seperate things and it took longer. I am almost positive I have seen pieces for rounded drywall corners. I could be crazy. Find out and limit the options to that specific tile manufacture... I can not imagine the PITA factor trying to round a corner for base with tile. Do you have any pictures of the outcome of those corners?

Mike Finley

I wouldn't want to limit the customers to just a few selections. The application we do is no different than the application used in wooden base board on a rounded corner, instead of two pieces coming together with 45's cut on the meeting ends you do 3 pieces with 22s cut on the meeting ends. We usually use the matching bullnose for the base.

I will try to post a few if I can get my scanner to work again!

dsnAK

I'd love to check it out. I hear you about not limiting options - in my mind it seems like a trick to do rounded corners in tile and make it look good. I bet you have though.

firemike

If I do the drywall and use radius cornerbead, I use these adapters for tile or wood base, and at the ceiling for crown or other trim. I generally cut them so they are 1/4" to 1/2" longer than my trim pieces will be. Absolutly love Trimtex products, use them whenever I can. plus it is a cheap (for me) upgrade for the customer, make a few extra bucks, and since I have to put corner bead on anyway, doesn't take that much more work, but the upcharge is nice.

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Bud Cline

Set your tile base with Speed Set thinset. I have always used whatever tile base was supplied and cut it "soldier-fashion" to make the radii. I don't bother with the mitre cut either, sometimes the soldiers butt at the back but it is easy enough to maintain the proper groutline appearance at the front. Never had anyone complain.

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Mike Finley

Yep, love the trim tex stuff too. I am using it more and more all the time. I'm going to end up having to stock it myself since my local drywall houses only stock the boring stuff. Kind of sucks to have to buy it in counts of 50 at a time.

Mike Finley

Okay, what is "soldier fashion"?

Good call on the speed set. Of course now you're really complicating my day with having to make sure I have speed set with me too!

Bud Cline

I almost always have a little fast-drying-thinset of some kind with me just for weird things that I run into. I just throw a bag of Speed-Set in a 3-1/2 gallon bucket to protect the bag and that way I can keep tossing the damned thing around the truck because it is always in the way. It's kind of like my contact adhesive that I carry around with me all the time. Rarely need it but when it's needed nothing else will work and I have only spilled that crap in my truck about 200 times over the years.

In brick-laying to turn bricks on-end with the long dimension vertical is called "soldiering". (I guess because with a little imagination it resembles marching soldiers.) When ceramic base tile is cut in narrow strips to accomodate wrapping a radius they always seem to take on the appearance of a brick soldier-course, so, I refer to this style of cutting and positioning tile as "soldiering".

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Mike Finley

Got it now, thanks!

Bud Cline

Mike, referring to your other thread where you forgot to install a single tile.......

See what I mean?

Been there done that!

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Mike Finley

I finally got a picture of the job this is discussing. This is the powder room, I'll try to get a pic of the other room with the bullnose tile on the round corners...