Absolute novice to tiling is attempting shower room, where to start ??

[Warleyboy71]

Hi all,

Having my first attempt at tiling the shower room.
As you can see from the pics, ive boarded it throughout and a mate has skimmed it for me.
Got my level for first tiles and have battoned out.
But where do i start, ive checked lots of sites and watched loadsa videos, with lots of different opinions.
As my shower going in corner, do i put full tiles from right and work left or find centre of wall and have small cuts either side.
How do i work around the rest of the walls making it look easy on the eye.All of shower enclosure to be tiled with rest of room going 5 tiles up to just where paint begins
Any advice would be really appreciated.
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[bgatty68]

Stef walls were plastered but I must be honest the walls were not painted to the point where you could say ooh nice colour lets leave it, it was very bitty and so maybe just got lucky cos I used ready mixed adhesive as well :sofahide:

 

[Stef]

Stef walls were plastered but I must be honest the walls were not painted to the point where you could say ooh nice colour lets leave it, it was very bitty and so maybe just got lucky cos I used ready mixed adhesive as well :sofahide:

Tubbed addy probably stuck to those walls better than a powder.
I've been to a lot of jobs that have been tiled on top of paint & they have not moved but I've also been to a hell of a lot more that the tiles have come away with minimal of effort.
Same with floors, tiled straight to chipboard & would have lasted another 10yrs but also been to floors that have only lasted a matter of weeks & I've lifted them straight off with a scraper.

 

[Bradma9]

When I worked with a very experienced tiler he had a primer, green in colour that you could put onto paint and then tile straight onto it, has anyone seen this or used it?

 

[J Sid]

When I worked with a very experienced tiler he had a primer, green in colour that you could put onto paint and then tile straight onto it, has anyone seen this or used it?

I work with a plasterer who uses a green primer with a sand/grit in it when he goes over painted walls. Don't know if it is suitable for tiling. Will find out what is called when i see him next.

 

[Bradma9]

I have got some in my lockup so will get the name of it and see what people think.

 

[bgatty68]

Stef,
Since you mention tiling on to floor and i am going to put hardi backer board(6mm) onto mine, can you recommend a good flexible adhesive. I have put a thread up about this but i thought i would ask on here since you brought up the subject cheers

 

[Stef]

I use Weber rapid spf to stick the Hardie down & then stick the tiles down with the same.
If I were you I would use a slow set adhesive Weber spf standard set or Bal spf or one from Mapei, whatever you can get hold of in your area.
Get yourself 25mm turbo gold screws to fix your Hardie once you have skimmed the floor.

 

[IHB]

I work with a plasterer who uses a green primer with a sand/grit in it when he goes over painted walls. Don't know if it is suitable for tiling. Will find out what is called when i see him next.

That's the sort of stuff that I ended up using when I had to skim hardie backer board. You can use it to plaster onto surfaces that don't have enough suction & also helped with Hardie that has way too much suction. Not sure it helps for tiling on to though.