Hello All

I have some small areas in my kitchen that will need skirting on after
I have finished tiling and I've been thinking of alternatives to the
wood/UPVC or MDF type. The floor will be granite tiles, Nero Assoluto
(Jet Black) and I think I may use these floor tiles for the skirting.
The tiles will be cut to size probably 5 inches high. The walls are
painted brilliant white.

Has anoyone ever done this and if so were they pleased with results?
Can anyone see any issues with doing this??

TIA

Cheers

Richard

On 19 Jan 2005 06:22:00 -0800, wrote:

Hello All

I have some small areas in my kitchen that will need skirting on after
I have finished tiling and I've been thinking of alternatives to the
wood/UPVC or MDF type. The floor will be granite tiles, Nero Assoluto
(Jet Black) and I think I may use these floor tiles for the skirting.
The tiles will be cut to size probably 5 inches high. The walls are
painted brilliant white.

Has anoyone ever done this and if so were they pleased with results?
Can anyone see any issues with doing this??

TIA

Cheers

Richard

I've done this with slate in the utility room and it works well.

I have granite worktops and have some vertical upstands above worktop
height in a thinner version of the same material. For flooring, if
the material is only about 10mm or so thick then I think that that
would be fine, otherwise I think it would look funny if thicker.
Also I would suggest getting the top front edges eased *very*
slightly, maybe 3mm or so radius, to either a rounded or perhaps
bevelled shape as it will improve the appearance.

It would also be an idea not to use tile cement or grout in the joint
between the two, but a flexible jointing compound to allow for any
slight movement between wall and floor.

I presume that you are going to go for either a black or grey grout?
You can get matching compounds to most of them.





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Hello All

I have some small areas in my kitchen that will need skirting on after
I have finished tiling and I've been thinking of alternatives to the
wood/UPVC or MDF type. The floor will be granite tiles, Nero Assoluto
(Jet Black) and I think I may use these floor tiles for the skirting.
The tiles will be cut to size probably 5 inches high. The walls are
painted brilliant white.

Has anoyone ever done this and if so were they pleased with results?
Can anyone see any issues with doing this??

My house in France has this everywhere, but done with ceramic tiles. Quite a
lot of them have cracked, apparently from impact at about the right height
for an upright vacuum cleaner to be the culprit.

Colin Bignell

On 19 Jan 2005 06:22:00 -0800, wrote:

I have some small areas in my kitchen that will need skirting on after
I have finished tiling and I've been thinking of alternatives to the
wood/UPVC or MDF type. The floor will be granite tiles, Nero Assoluto
(Jet Black) and I think I may use these floor tiles for the skirting.
The tiles will be cut to size probably 5 inches high. The walls are
painted brilliant white.

Has anoyone ever done this and if so were they pleased with results?
Can anyone see any issues with doing this??

My dad did that in a loo and it is ideal - hardwearing, washable,
attractive

Anna

~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England
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/ ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc
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Great, thanks. I too have granite worktops, well when they come I will
and I have ordered upstands too. Out of interest
what thickness are your upstands?

The tiles are 10mm thicknes and have a slight bevelled edge anyways so
they should be good to go.

I'll go hunt for some jointing compound

As far as grout goes, I have used grey grout in the past for my
hallway, is black grout that much difference in appearance. I thought
the grey stuff looked just like black and in the past most people I
have spoken with have used grey, is this just personal preference, or
is there something specifically different between black and grey grout
apart from the colour!

Cheers

Richard

In message , nightjar
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My house in France has this everywhere, but done with ceramic tiles. Quite a
lot of them have cracked, apparently from impact at about the right height
for an upright vacuum cleaner to be the culprit.

Its standard practice in most European countries IME. It looks quite
good I think and I don't know why its not done more over here.

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Paul Giverin

British Jet Engine Website http://www.britjet.co.uk

On 19 Jan 2005 07:39:40 -0800, wrote:

Great, thanks. I too have granite worktops, well when they come I will
and I have ordered upstands too. Out of interest
what thickness are your upstands?

About 18mm


The tiles are 10mm thicknes and have a slight bevelled edge anyways so
they should be good to go.

I'll go hunt for some jointing compound

As far as grout goes, I have used grey grout in the past for my
hallway, is black grout that much difference in appearance. I thought
the grey stuff looked just like black and in the past most people I
have spoken with have used grey, is this just personal preference, or
is there something specifically different between black and grey grout
apart from the colour!

I don't think so, but I would expect that black would fade slightly to
a very dark grey which is probably OK.

I looked at colours in connection with our worktops etc. and
personally would not have selected mid grey and definitely not white,
so I think dark grey or black is probably OK.

I'd suggest getting a couple of the tiles and putting them down on a
piece of ply or something and grouting them with a small sample of
grout then looking at it over a day or two to see if you like it.

It's a relatively expensive material, so you want to get it right :-)



Cheers

Richard


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Thanks all!

Cheers

Richard

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Andy Hall writes:
I've done this with slate in the utility room and it works well.

I have granite worktops and have some vertical upstands above worktop
height in a thinner version of the same material. For flooring, if
the material is only about 10mm or so thick then I think that that
would be fine, otherwise I think it would look funny if thicker.
Also I would suggest getting the top front edges eased *very*
slightly, maybe 3mm or so radius, to either a rounded or perhaps
bevelled shape as it will improve the appearance.

I'm about to do this. I'm thinking of recessing the tiles into the
wall/plaster so the edge of the tile is level with the plaster.
As the tile edges roll down a little, this will mean the tile face
is about 1-2mm proud of the wall. This also means I don't have to
use tiles with one rounded edge (which aren't available in the
style anyway).

When I was looking around at other floor installations to get ideas,
one thing I noticed in our office is that this has been done with
the carpet. The skirting is actually carpet, and it's recessed into
the wall by the carpet thickness making the front surface flush.
I wouldn't do that at home with carpet, but I liked the idea for tiles.

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Andrew Gabriel

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
When I was looking around at other floor installations to get ideas,
one thing I noticed in our office is that this has been done with the
carpet. The skirting is actually carpet, and it's recessed into the
wall by the carpet thickness making the front surface flush. I wouldn't
do that at home with carpet, but I liked the idea for tiles.

There's a European Commission building in Luxembourg where the carpet
continues on up the wall to dado height... aka "The Padded Cell".


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Ian White
Abingdon, England

The floor will be granite tiles, Nero Assoluto
(Jet Black) and I think I may use these floor tiles for the skirting.

dad did that in a loo and it is ideal - hardwearing, washable,
attractive

Wouldnt that affect the flushing performance?


NT