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Hi Guys

We're having our new kitchen tiled soon. Had a tiler over to have a look today and wondered what you guys would do about tiling under a curve bottomed chimney extractor hood? It's one of those with the curved glass at the bottom and it's curved front and back.

The tiler won't be taking the chimney hood off the wall. He could cut the tiles to the curve but he thought it would look better to finish to a full tile and paint the small part left over to carry on and join up with the paint which is now on the wall above the chimney (also, I'm not sure whether it would look right with tiles cut to the curve. Never seen a pic of that. Tiler would do that if we wanted it like that though).

The other option of course is to tile up past the chimney, up to and in line with the top cupboards either side of it but I think that would involve taking the chimney hood off the wall, which the tiler isn't going to do.

What do you think we should do please and what have you done in this situation in the past?

Thanks in advance.

Here's a picture of our curved chimney extractor hood and the walls as they are at the moment, to give you a better idea.

The panels which extend below the cupboards either side of the chimney are no longer there and have been replaced with in-frame decorative panels and a narrow pelment which goes around the bottom of the cupboards.

I would do as the tiler suggests, he should center the tiles to the chimney, I would also advise he doesn't tile up to the decor panels where the chimney is and finishes with a full tile that is in line with the edge on the glass running down. Does that make sense?

The chimney looks like it is an 800mm, the tiles i'd seen before loked as if they were 100x100's so if he centers the tiles should have 8 tiles across under the chimney that then run down to meet the rest of the tiles under the wall units. Am I still making no sense

Lol, I think I get you but would need to climb into your head to know for sure

The chimney hood is 90 cm, so you were nearly spot on there.

He's drawn a rough line where he thinks the paint should go down to and I've just measured that. It's roughly 7 inches from the centre of the curved piece of glass to the line he's drawn. Do you think that would look ok?

Thanks again for your PM and I hope you got my reply. You're a star!

PS You were spot on with the size of the tiles!

We're going for just 3 of the colours now. We're not having the bluey colour one now but just the other three. The tiler thought equal numbers of all 3 would look good.

How big the gap is really depends on the tile choice, are they 100x100's? Also I would have thought he'd like you to go a few inches past where he will tile, so the gap maybe 5" once tiled, which would tie in with the size of tiles I saw in your other pics

Ok so they are 100's then tile 9 across, by the way random patterns rarely look random. I'm not a fan but only because they can be a pain to do, to make them look random is an artform in itself!

All sounds good then! Great to get it confirmed by you. Thank you

Let's hope he's an artist when it comes to random patterns then! Unless he is thinking of a repetitive pattern (don't know the correct term). Will have to talk to him about it.