stainless steel tile trim and adhesive for porcelain

sparkydude · Post by **sparkydude** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:11 pm

Hello can anyone point me in the direction of some stainless steel tile trim , not the rounded one, i am looking for the one thats just an L shape . Also what adhesive do you recommend for porcelain tiles to be stuck to a plastered wall.

Thanks

Nick

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:14 pm

Hi Nick,

I can't say that I have ever seen stainless trim, it is normally alloy and is sometime anodised to colour it.

Most of the pro's on here seem to use BAL adhesives - http://www.bal-adhesives.co.uk/bal/bal_ ... oducts.asp

tim'll fix it · Post by **tim'll fix it** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:18 pm

i use pci nanolight for porcelain as that is what my tile supplier sells

http://www.pci-construction-systems.co. ... olight.asp

and i think shutra do a huge range of tile egdings, althought the porcelain i have always use has been coloured on the edges so you may not need edging

bstyle · Post by **bstyle** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:22 pm

The best company for tile trims in this country is Schluter:-

http://www.schluter.co.uk/products.aspx

As for adhesive, try Bal single part flexible, it has a very long pot life, 8 hours I believe and is nice to use.

Timm has a point about the tiles not needing trim, I prefer to see an overlap with Porcelain, it looks more natural.

tim'll fix it · Post by **tim'll fix it** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:36 pm

bstyle wrote:The best company for tile trims in this country is Schluter:-

http://www.schluter.co.uk/products.aspx

As for adhesive, try Bal single part flexible, it has a very long pot life, 8 hours I believe and is nice to use.

Timm has a point about the tiles not needing trim, I prefer to see an overlap with Porcelain, it looks more natural.

well thank you bstyle it was your goodself who pointed the over lapping tiles out to me

schluter was the name I meant to post

sparkydude · Post by **sparkydude** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:38 pm

Thanks for the help lads, i am only using the tile trim on the top of the tiles where they go round into a window reveal, to give the tile an end , as the tiles are a mosaic effect the edges will have the grooves in them for the mosaic so want to cover them up with the tile trim. looked at schluter for the trims, they do exactly what i am after just need to find a stockist in the midlands

Nick

tim'll fix it · Post by **tim'll fix it** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:21 am

East Midlands Ceramics in Loughborough stock em

Mudster · Post by **Mudster** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:27 am

A stainless steel L trim will be in the region of £25 a length, if it's just a window trim Polished Aluminium would probably look better and be a third of the price.