Make sure the surface is free from dust clean dry and suitable for tiling.
Tiling curved surfaces.
Find the centre of the circle or curve position the tile so that the maximum surface area is against the edge of the circle or curve.
And it doesn t draw your eye because all the grout lines are different.
Start in the corner section.
Draw a line on the tile where the ruler runs this is your cutting.
Also there are a lot of tools that could assist in fitt.
To get a smoothly curved surface good framing is important too preferably with the studs placed no more than 6 inches on center.
Get a ruler and position it so that it runs from the centre of the circle or curve to the tile.
There are various options on how to fit tile especially a larger porcelain tile around curved walls.
A common example of curved wall tiles is the faces of jacuzzi surrounds or specially designed bathrooms.
While the normal way of curving wall tile in this instance is to use 1 inch tiles on a sheet you can also modify larger tiles to work in the same fashion.
You would assume that you need to cut it on a curve because the drywall is curved but the individual tiles are so small that you can cut it straight at an angle and fill the rest with grout.
Look at this picture below some of the grout areas are close and some aren t.
Apply the adhesive such as.