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46pcs Transition Edge Kit, Grey
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46pcs Transition Edge Kit, Grey

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Grey is the version to order when the border is supposed to disappear into the floor rather than outline it, which is the usual intention with grey tiles on a concrete slab. Everything else matches the black kit: high-strength polypropylene that shrugs off grease and wipes clean, a 0.65 inch thickness that steps the tile height down to the slab, and six corner pieces for the places where two ramps meet. It fits the 12 inch polypropylene tiles and only those.

Contents
46 pieces: 40 edges, 6 corners
Corner size
2.4 x 2.4 in, 0.65 in thick
Finish
Grey
Cleaning
Grease resistant, rinse or wipe

How it lives in the room

Match grey to the slab, not the tile

The point of a grey border is that the eye stops at the wall instead of at the floor edge. Hold a strip against the bare concrete as well as against the tile before deciding: on a pale slab grey vanishes, on a dark sealed floor it reads as a line. Either outcome is fine, but the decision is easier with both pieces in hand than from a photograph.

Six corners is the real limit

Forty strips will go a long way; six corner pieces will not. A simple rectangle uses four. An L-shaped floor uses six, and anything with a doorway recess or a pillar runs out of corners well before it runs out of edges. Count the outside corners on a sketch first, because a border that stops short at a corner is more noticeable than no border at all.

Then wipe the strips, not scrub

Polypropylene resists grease rather than repelling it, so the border at a garage door collects whatever comes off the tires and holds it until something is done. A cloth and warm water takes it off in one pass while it is fresh. Left for a season it goes sticky, traps grit, and the strip ends up looking older than the floor it finishes.

Before you order

The strips lie on the slab rather than fixing to it, held only by the tiles they clip into. A border crossed daily by a vehicle wheel creeps outward over time and needs pushing back, or a bead of adhesive under the end pieces.