How To Tile Outside Corners Without Bullnose
Fill this gap between the tile and the masking tape with a smooth.
How to tile outside corners without bullnose. Have your installer fill in that corner between the tile and wall with caulk to match the grout. To give the edge a clean water tight finish place a piece of masking tape one grout joint away from the edge of the last tile. The wall had a very thin edge to finish abd in fact the space is not even all the way up the wall. A lot of tile doesn t come with match.
For a corner on a counter top or shower pan where you have a flat surface going over to a vertical surface you are faced with a different problem. There are many ways to finish off tile on walls and other transitions but i still prefer bull nose over other methods. I jane looked into bulnose tiles to finish it off however they all are too big. They did what i now know as a crap job.
If you have selected a tile that doesn t have a matching bullnose dislike the idea of using metal edges or other moldings you can or have your installer make custom bullnose edges from the tiles you have selected. This essentially covers up the unfinished edge. This do it yourself video how to install bull nose trim tiles on outside corner on shower wall shows the process of installing ceramic bull nose trim tiles. I m stumped maybe you have a suggestion for me our builder left my shower edge tile outside the shower without bullnose.
Matching grout caulk is available at most hardware stores next to or in the grout section. The other option is to apply grout at a 45 degree angle between the wall and the top edge of the tile. They ended the tile with a flat edge tile.