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basshunter
Think of it from the adhesive manufacturers perspective :builder2:
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White Room
I have never dot and dabbed plasterboard with anything other than dry wall adhesive, the thing to remember is the dab of adhesive are peaked when put on with a trowel and the board is pushed back to the wall and is spread out on the rear of the board covering a lot of area but a 10mm gap must remain behind the board any thinner could weaken the adhesive for which it was designed for. Tile adhesive is normally a bed of about 3-6mm bed, so unless your using, say a thick bed adhesive, could the standard addy fail to excesive depth for which it was'nt designed for, just my humble opinion
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jay
any plasters out there if walls are to be tiled (pb on studs ) shouldnt the screws be every 200mm on studs (as the case down here ):8:
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White Room
To be honest any plasterboard wether dot and dabbing or fixing onto stud work and having any weight applied to the surface of board should have extra fixings
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TJ Smiler
Totaly agree with you AndyP, i think we all try to make sure we get 100% coverage but i do think that there are always going to be voids under a few of the tiles no matter how much we try to avoid it and the only way we could ever tell if we were getting 100% is by pulling up every tile after we have laid it down to inspect it. And i for one aint doing that lol.
But i think as long as it's close enough no problems will ever occur cos it's like anything, if you were to get a tile and rest the 2 ends on a brick then you could probably smash through it very easily but if you were to put the 2 bricks closer together it would be much more difficult and if you put them much closer together say so there is a 10mm gap betwenn them then i dont reckon it would snap no matter what you did........ unless of course you hit it with a hammer or something.
Errr Hope you get what i'm trying to say
TJ
But i think as long as it's close enough no problems will ever occur cos it's like anything, if you were to get a tile and rest the 2 ends on a brick then you could probably smash through it very easily but if you were to put the 2 bricks closer together it would be much more difficult and if you put them much closer together say so there is a 10mm gap betwenn them then i dont reckon it would snap no matter what you did........ unless of course you hit it with a hammer or something.
Errr Hope you get what i'm trying to say
TJ
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White Room
The edges are the weak points though
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TJ Smiler
Yeah i know mate but i was just trying to sort of explain a point, probably or maybe obviously not very well eh?? :lol:
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