Advice required for bathroom wall tiling Page: 2

[DzineTech]

Hi all, I've been browsing about the threads on this site for a few days now trying to get some tips on tiling. I'm currently installing my new bathroom and I've relined the walls with 9.5mm gyproc wallboard and I've been looking around at tiles in Topps, tile-it-all etc..

There seems to be a lot of opinions as to what adhesive is best but I'm looking for some advice for what I should do. I've read that BAL whitestar is pretty much the best about, only problem is that I haven't found it anywhere(I'm based near Edinburgh). I've seen BAL Grip in Topps. Screwfix seem to have a few but I dont know what is crap and what isn't. They sell Bluestar cheaper than Topps yet some people here don't recommend it. Screwfix also sell Mapei Keraquick and Keraflex but again I'm not sure if they are suitable or if I'd be wasting my time.

The tiles I like so far are 330x416 ceramic with a cross check pattern on the back; not sure if this helps any recommendations.

Any help on adhesive, priming and trowel's would be really appreciated. The last thing I want are tiles falling off.

Cheers

 

[DzineTech]

Reading back to my previous post I gave the impression that I wasn't aware of what a datum was. What I meant to ask was if you as a pro tiler were approaching the same task, where would you choose your datum to be? My guess as before is at a level that would have you finish with a full tile at ceiling level. Would this be correct?

 

[penno]

No mate, can't always finish with a full tile at the ceiling, for example if a window was involved it may mean that by laying full tiles at the top slithers are created around the windows top/bottom.

 

[NickH]

You need to set a datum with regard to every horizontal feature in the room, ie floor, bath rim, cieling, window top and bottom, door frames, boxing in etc etc. Your final datum will hopefully avoid any nasty cuts around all of these but its alway going to be a compromise to get the best overall finish.
Once you have set your horizontal datum you can then lay out each wall/panel with regard to every vertical feature, again its going to involve some sort of compromise between different cuts.