Worktop trims and edgings are essential for achieving a clean, professional finish around your worktops. Whether you’re replacing old edges or installing new worktops in your kitchen or bathroom, find options to suit your project here. Solid compact laminate worktops are 100% waterproof. Aria provides the same inspirational, clean, visual appeal of natural or engineered stone. Aria Compact I'm a UK multi-award-winning DIY home improvement blogger, YouTuber, and TV presenter as seen on ITV's Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh, BBC One, and many more. From doing tile research, I noticed some tile directly on to their worktop and others don't. I've done it both ways now. However, because I had a corner joint on my worktop that protrudes ever so slightly, I opted for spacers along the bottom.

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In fact, I wish I'd done this behind my hob two years ago. And instead of buying a grout impregnator, I found this free stone sealer sample from Eco Pro Tec perfect. Firstly, always use tile spacers when tiling. They allow you to continue ensuring your tiling is level and even throughout. You'll find tile adhesive can get everywhere. So it's a good idea to protect your surfaces, such as worktop and sink. Then, after transferring your measurement to the tile, line the mark to the top of the tile cutter. And, starting from the bottom, gently push the handle down while moving forward to score the tile. And once you've got to the top, make sure the metal pressure piece is resting on the top edge of the tile. Then gently push down the handle until is cuts in half. Also, it's an awful thought to take ages cutting a tile with hand tools, only to find you've measured it wrong in the first place.

I used to dread working with silicone sealant because if applied wrong, it looks very messy and awful. But now I get asked how do I get it so neat! Well, here's how! I place a bit of masking tape or rag around my surface, but DON'T masking tape too close. This is solely to catch drips. Then I apply a bead of silicone, My best advice is try to be consistent - not too much, not too little. Now spray the silicone with watered down washing up liquid and smooth run along it with the corner of a credit card. So after marking a notch to cut around my upstand (far right), I poured water in the cutter and carefully cut. It's scary on the first go, but I fell in love almost immediately. Then tiled as usual. PREPPING FOR GROUTING And my final tip on tile adhesive is that it's best to clean up as you go with a sponge of cloth. Also, try to clear the 2mm gaps as it takes AGES to remove carefully once dry. So where possible, why not two of you work on it at the same time? *Note I work alone as there's less arguments(!) SPREADING TILE ADHESIVE

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I lined my first tile up with my centre pencil line, ensuring I left a slight gap for the spacer and pressed firmly on the wall. However, when faced with planning this awkward section of trim, I was relieved that this was the perfect solution. It was imperative I worked out exactly where to cut my length down Another tip is to mark with masking tape of which cut tile is which in case your cut was ever so slightly different. TILE AS USUAL While tiling, it's important to add your adhesive first, then place to trim on top, then continue tiling as normal. CLAMPING THE MITRE CORNER First, I measured the gap left under my window sill and deducted a 2mm tile spacer gap. *Note, I could curse whoever installed this window sill as really, it isn't deep enough to hide the edges. So, I do plan to build the sill up later with a deeper lip.Also, AVOID scraping off with a filling knife or window scraper. Speaking from experience, it's far too easy to chip a tile, which you'll then need to replace. HOW DO I MIX GROUT? Once I cleaned up all my tiles, it was time to mix the grout. For this, I'm absolutely wearing gloves and eye protection as there's cement in it. And again, speaking from experience 2 years ago, CEMENT BURNS!

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You can see above that I'm using a tile adhesive trowel. It should have teeth on it which looks quite notchy. Here, I'm starting where my centre line is, but making sure I only work with enough as I go. Mine probably had about 30 minutes working time before it set.It's not often when I hear about grout sealant. In fact, it's only ever been from a handful of my followers who do this for a living. The idea of sealing grout it to doubly make sure it's waterproof and prevent stains. It can be scrubbed off, but it's very very tough. So here I used a plastic sheet with masking tape on a roll. Also, don't forget that stainless steel sinks still scratch. If you have any questions, then feel free to drop me a comment below! More Fitting a Kitchen Projects If you do spread too much, you'll need to scrape it off. And right or wrong, this happened to me once, so I prepped it again with a pva solution then left to dry before continuing on the next day.