I am tiling an entryway/hallway floor, which has a somewhat irregular shape. While I've dealt with all the corners and funny shapes, there's one place where I can't think of a solution. At one point, the floor ends with a step down into a garage. I need to tile the whole area as one. Yet when I lay the tiles, because the step ends slightly at an angle, I end up with a very narrow strip along the edge of the last tile. Look at the picture below (not drawn to scale):
This is a simplified drawing of the area in question – and I'm interested in the little corner marked in grey. Normally I would just cut a tile at an angle, however the width of that grey area is only about 5 mm at the widest point and I am tiling with 3 mm spacers.
One option I'm thinking about is to put one tile vertically along the side of the step (basically from the drawn surface down) but sticking 13-14 mm up above the surface (i.e. the same as thickness of the tiles plus the thinset) and then grout. Are there any other options?
Best Answer
Two options:
you could taper the tile as necessary and fit a nose strip.
Lay that last single tile at a slight angle so it shares that gap equally either side. But wide grout lines may be "odd"...
Edited based on comments, and option 1 seems favorite...