| small bath heated tile floor and tile walls
A picture would make this easier, but that is all in my head at this point. The BR is about 10' X 8' and the floor is plywood over floor rafters built in 1973. I want to put down a heated ceramic tile floor to replace a 16X16 tile floor I put down several years ago and to replace existing 4X4 wall tiles in bath and dry area of the room with 3X6 white tiles over new hardibacker. I also want to use what I am going to call 'cove base' tiles that match the white wall tiles and have a cove shaped transition to the floor tile. I have seen this at a new Books-a-Million bathroom and it looks so clean.
Several questions:
1) How do I do inside and outside corners with the cove base tiles? Do I cut matching edges at 45 degrees like I would do for wood? Or cope one tile? Or just butt them and get creative with grout? Are there special inside/outside corner tiles available?
2) What about expansion with the tile-to-tile wall and floor? With both wall and floor tiles and the cove base there seems no space for expansion. Maybe use some kind of silicone caulk at the floor to cove base joint?
3) Is the heated tile going to make this expansion a bigger problem?
Thanks in advance for the help. I spend a few hours reading other posts, but no-one really spoke to the cove base tile issues.  |