tiling a reveal

[stofts]

hi

I am a novice tiler and struggling to tile a reveal (around a window); I need some help please.

The problem is this:

The width of the reveal is slightly larger than the width of the tile AND the reveal is badly out of square. The gap between the end of the tile and the window is about 12mm at the bottom and about 25mm+ at the top on the left hand side of the window and different again on the right hand side.

I can think of three ways to solve it

1 - leave a big gap and try to fill it in with grout - untidy perhaps

2 - cut a sliver of tile all the way round increasing the width of the sliver at the top and decreasing at the bottom to follow the line of the window - really hard work and might look a mess

3 - turn the tile through 90 degrees (it is a plain tile) and put the tiles on "landscape" in the reveal but they are "portrait" everywhere else. This will mean the grout lines do not follow on - probably the easiest and neatest but might look peculiar

Does anyone know which way is best? or have any other suggestions? how does a professional solve this one?

Thanks

Stofts

[marc1106]

go with no2 and if it looks a mess afterwards buy some upvc quadrant and fix that to the tiles against the window!

[jg]

You could try doing two half tiles so that you don't have to use slivers.
Do a row of half tiles on the square side of the reveal away from the window. Then cut another halfish tile to fit the remaining gap at whatever angle the window is at.

HTH
J

[tictic]

bugger that if the reveals are that bad...get the pvc in there mate..