Bathroom tiling

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Hi all,
Fairly new here, so apologies if this is in the wrong section.

I'm looking at refitting my bathroom and we have been looking at what tiles to use. I have only bought a sample tile at the moment.
The tiles we have found are a ceramic marble effect 50 x 25cm wall tile, which we would like to tile in a brick-bond effect. The issue I have is the tiles look to be slightly bowed so that where the edge of one row of tiles meets the middle of the tile on the next row the wall doesn't look flat.

Is there any way to overcome this? Or are these poorly made tiles?

By the way the tiles are made by BCT.

Many thanks
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[Dan]

Do as you suggest that's the way to go.

If you can tile the underside first and then the sides, you can lock in the top corner tiles with the side tiles so that they're overlapping it. Then you're only propping up the middle tiles while the adhesive sets.

 

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Thanks Dan, I have already tiled the sides, so just the top and bottom to do. They are big tiles (600 x 300) so their will only be two tiles 170mm deep stuck up there anyway.

I guess I just need to hope the plaster is stuck to the lintel. The plaster seems sound, but I know the plaster is a lightweight plaster with a skim over top. Hopefully I am worrying about nothing.

 

[Dan]

You could always try drilling and screwing backer board to the underside so it has a good fixing and then tiling that if you're worried.

 

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Thanks. Only issue is it's a metal lintel. Think I'll double check the plaster is sound and trust that.

 

[Dan]

Wondering what else is part of the structure though, it wont just be plastered lintel will it?

 

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From my experience with this house yes just plastered straight on to a metal lintel. Plaster seems solid though.