1 metre tiles

[The D]

You might want to check the weight of the tiles if the walls are skimmed they may be to heavy

 

[kilty55]

the walls are original lath n plaster,in decent nick apart from 2 bubbled bits which have movement behind the double shower tray this being due to no tanking! so im going to cut them out and dot and dab plasterboard onto them finishing with a skim on the 2 peices only,,also 2 packed out peices of wall to fit shower tray which im putting hardi backeronto as these are made of cheap chipboard do you guys think this sounds sufficient to hold the weight,,i personally thought it would be fine?

 

[The D]

gypsum plaster. the weightof the tile should not exceed 20kg/m2

 

[kilty55]

ill be checking the weight of them 2moro i think ill just make it((lets hope so))

 

[The D]

do not skim the plaster bord just fix the tiles to the bord.

 

[kilty55]

okay deano cheers 4 advice m8

 

[White Room]

The trouble with lath and plaster it can break away at any time especially with the weight of the tiles your proposing to put up, I would'nt IMO

 

[kilty55]

hi whitebeam,,okay heres my situation,,im pretty new to tiling,,only done 6 jobs so far,,iv priced a job for a 17 sq metre bathroom refit walls only and ceramic tiles i was told,,customer turned up today with 1000mm by 300mm 12 mm thick tiles..lath n plaster walls in decent nick but not dead straight as requested,,i was going to spend 2moro prepping my walls and makin good all i could before starting,,i do have concerns about the weight of these tiles but thought it would be okay,if lath n plaster is not suitable what other measures could i advise the customer?cheers

 

[Highlander]

Did a job using similar tiles end of last year 260m2 in total 5 ensuites massive house LOL They were ceramic and I used 3mm spacers tiles were not 100% but the 3mm looked good. Think the tiles were spanish as we had to wait three weeks for extra tiles to come in the contractor had cocked up on his measurments. Used SPF and my the lord did they stick to the wall the sparkys messed up a socket and we had to take one down oh what a nightmare then plumbers had measured outlet pipes for radiators in wrong place :mad2: so best of luck mate and hopefully you will not have to take any off.

We went up three to four rows and then moved onto next wall just due to weight issuse and let the adhesive go off before we went higher. We were going up 3.5 meters high so wanted to make sure we were not going to high to quick.

Highlander

 

[kilty55]

was gonna do the same section it so not too much on at once..im a bit unconfident about the weight now though as some are advising me lath n plaster may not be a good base to put these tiles onto?? any veiws peeps?