Patronising someone you know nothing about whilst they have been trying to help someone else is clearly "having a go" and telling someone to re-read comments is also patronising. You aren't learning.
52....and I can rebuild a tractor and learn to weld a year after a serious heart operation AND choose colours without having a fragile sense of masculinity threatened. Seems like you have a "lot to learn".....start by not making facile patronising assumptions.
If you can find the edging strips in close to the same grey, personally I would go for that. The edging shouldn't shout out as a contrast....they need to blend in.
Either go white or grey grout.
Myself, I would go white grout for a bit of contrast otherwise it will be a sea of grey.
What colour are the tiles?
As has been said, for a pro look, the edging goes on everywhere except along the bottom and internal corners.
You will need to mitre the plastic edging corners like a picture frame.
Looking at it again if I were doing it, I would tile up to below the lowest socket, I would ignore the sill/benchtop gap and leave as is and I would go into the reveal.
Just notch the tile around the sill on the right using the nippers.
To get an edging strip with a suitable colour to go with...
I went into the window reveal in my bathroom but I was going for fully tiled floor to ceiling all round. For a utility I think it might look too clinical.
For external corners you usually use a plastic strip which is convex found in the diy tiling section.
For narrow strips on back wall...choose...
Doing the intermediate mig class next week, so probably going to try the cut and weld method after that. Made an extension lead to reach the doors 'cos my sparky would only put in one 20 amp socket in case anyone plugged in 2 things at once.
First welding project...bit scary.
Down south mate.
Yes SA is often underrated/overlooked. I think we have the most variety of landscapes in Oz.
Roxby in the summer.....ouch...that's got to be over 40C too often.
I like Port Pirie, it's got nice people, a good bbq chicken shop and a great big lead smelter right in the middle of...
If you have a Karcher pressure washer, they do a sand blaster attachment which works even with their more basic models. Useful if you have other small stuff to do in the future. A bit slow so not much fun for bigger things. You use very dry bagged builders sand (must be dry) which gets expensive...
Is the shielding necessary? as I have found a good cable from Siemens from someone who will sell it by the metre: Ozoflex rated to 26 amps but no shielding.
http://www.kabex.com.au/uploads/files/Cable/12_Ozoflex_Heavy_Duty.pdf
Otherwise all the other 3G2.5 I can find by the metre in this...
What extension cable core size would be suitable for a 250 amp inverter welder?
Plug is 20 amp. Extension cable 10m.
Choice seems to be 2.5, 4 or 6mm sq. Prefer to go oversize on stuff like this.
Thanks
Edit: turns out the only available 20 amp plug is limited to 2.5sqmm cable. Is that going...
I've done the beginners mig class and am shortly going to do the intermediate.
The machine I was learning on was a big 350 industrial thing. It had separate controls for the wire speed and amps. I read the instruction manual for my new machine and it seems to be different and I'm wondering if I...