Hi
I hope someone can help please.
I've just had the front garden wall rebuilt in Victorian reclaimed bricks, and would like to finish it off with decorative creasing tiles and blue capping bricks. (I'll be doing this part - the wall is only about 8ft long).
I'd like to keeep a traditional look and I've seen walls done with wavy edged creasing tiles or tiles with 'U' shaped bits. One seemed to be made of hard plastic.
I've rung around the local builders merchants and tried to describe what I'm looking for but I've only been able to find stockists of flat, straight creasing tiles.
Does anyone know if these more decorative tiles are called something else, are they for example roof tiles? Are they usually available from normal builders merchants or only specialist outlets? I'm in Birmingham.
Also, I've seen finishes where there are 2 layers of straight, flat, tiles, the bottom one sticking out further than the top, creating a slope effect. If you have this finish do you have to cut the top tile smaller or do some places sell sets to create this finish. Also do you have to use special mix mortar for this slope effect as it will be exposed to the elements?
Thank you for reading and many thanks for any replies!
Amanda
I hope someone can help please.
I've just had the front garden wall rebuilt in Victorian reclaimed bricks, and would like to finish it off with decorative creasing tiles and blue capping bricks. (I'll be doing this part - the wall is only about 8ft long).
I'd like to keeep a traditional look and I've seen walls done with wavy edged creasing tiles or tiles with 'U' shaped bits. One seemed to be made of hard plastic.
I've rung around the local builders merchants and tried to describe what I'm looking for but I've only been able to find stockists of flat, straight creasing tiles.
Does anyone know if these more decorative tiles are called something else, are they for example roof tiles? Are they usually available from normal builders merchants or only specialist outlets? I'm in Birmingham.
Also, I've seen finishes where there are 2 layers of straight, flat, tiles, the bottom one sticking out further than the top, creating a slope effect. If you have this finish do you have to cut the top tile smaller or do some places sell sets to create this finish. Also do you have to use special mix mortar for this slope effect as it will be exposed to the elements?
Thank you for reading and many thanks for any replies!
Amanda