9mm Ceramic Wall and Floor Tile weight question.

[Davethefish]

i'm going to be remodelling my own bathroom, but it has paramount boards for walls on 2 sides
(evil plaster board/ cardboard sandwich.)
and is plastered on breeze block the other 2.
the wall and floor ceramic tiles my wife wants have no m2/kg tile weight info,
just 1.08m2 per box of 6 tiles 9mm thick (600 x 300) and 17kg per box.
will this weight be ok to tile straight to plaster? (17kg divided by 1.08m2 =15.74 kg/m2)
as i thought 8mm was maximum thickness for ceramic tile to plaster?
TIA 🙂

 

[Dave]

i'm going to be remodelling my own bathroom, but it has paramount boards for walls on 2 sides
(evil plaster board/ cardboard sandwich.)
and is plastered on breeze block the other 2.
the wall and floor ceramic tiles my wife wants have no m2/kg tile weight info,
just 1.08m2 per box of 6 tiles 9mm thick (600 x 300) and 17kg per box.
will this weight be ok to tile straight to plaster? (17kg divided by 1.08m2 =15.74 kg/m2)
as i thought 8mm was maximum thickness for ceramic tile to plaster?
TIA 🙂

They’ll be fine, its not tile thickness but the overall weight. 20 kg for those walls if skimmed.

 

[Davethefish]

They’ll be fine, its not tile thickness but the overall weight. 20 kg for those walls if skimmed.

Thanks David, at least i'll be able to use those tiles ok, 🙂

yes they are skimmed and plastered walls as i remember...
i tiled them myself about 20 years ago,
now i'm hoping i did a crap job and they will come off easy...lol.

the ones i wanted were 11mm porcelain...
so i would have to knock down 2 the paramount walls.
rebuild them as stud walls, re boarding both sides.
and tile board the whole bathroom...😳
...just too much hassle.