Bonding & Pva What A Morning!

[Sean Kelly]

What a morning. I turned up at saw this (below). Just a bonding coat with a few undulations!! 600x300 porcelain in brickbond.

The usual from the builder 'I've tiled over bonding and never had a problem'. He got on the phone to the plasterer who gave the solution.......... use PVA and it will be fine.

Oh, and I have to tile around a mirror is mosaics!

Anyway, he is getting it skimmed while I sit at home...........will hopefully have a quote to do in High Wycombe later.

 

[Old Mod]

Smashing job!

 

[Tile Shop]

Check the weight of the porcelain first... if its gonna be more than 20kg per metre, it can't go onto skim. Wouldn't something like BAL Quickset Render be better?

 

[J Sid]

Just hardie board the walls and your be tiling by the afternoon

 

[Sean Kelly]

Check the weight of the porcelain first... if its gonna be more than 20kg per metre, it can't go onto skim. Wouldn't something like BAL Quickset Render be better?

Good point, will check it out.

I'm just the tiler so all the prep is done by builder etc. I've got a different job to go to tomorrow anyway.

 

[Perry]

sean pop in for a cuppa next time you are in wycombe you will have to pass my house.

 

[Sean Kelly]

sean pop in for a cuppa next time you are in wycombe you will have to pass my house.

Will do Peter, I was in a house on Keep Hill Drive.......marvellous views of the town from there.

 

[Perry]

The poor part lol.

 

[White Room]

State of the bonding coat the plasterer will struggle to get a good finish...

 

[J Sid]

State of the bonding coat the plasterer will struggle to get a good finish...

Plaster doesn't need a good finish, it will be tiled, tiler will get over it (with hardie board).

 

[kevsalt]

ouch ...theres a limit and thats well past it ..madness

 

[StevieBoy]

Is it the old, really soft type of bonding or is it hard?

 

[Longfold Tiling]

did he bond that using a shovel ?