Exceeding substrate weight limits.

[AliGage]

trading under my own company for less than a year but in the trade for 5 years.

The company i used to work for did everything from bathroom, public toilets, pub wc's, park holiday sites, bar walk, kitchens. all commercial and domestic so probably worked with most substrates tilealbe.

Yet your forum profile says 3 years 😕

 

[charlie1]

Think my profile used to say tiling for one year until I noticed last year.

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Cheers dave for this good thread. I was a little cautious about going 3kg over but now im confident there shouldn't be a problem as 90% of the tilers have exceeded the limits. Last thing I wanted is to potentially lose a big bathroom over 3kg. :beer:

 

[High Peak Tiling]

Yet your forum profile says 3 years 😕

sorry nit picker

 

[AliGage]

Think my profile used to say tiling for one year until I noticed last year.

Yes Charlie but you registered 6 years ago. High peak created that profile 2 months ago.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

I made a boo boo mistake, sorry Mr Gage :lol:

 

[Dan]

Has anyone seen, or heard of a failure, due to tiles being to heavy on the wrong substrate...?

The old BAL Director some years ago, who ended up running a tile shop after his time at BAL, apparently developed a stutter after having to inform parents of a child as to why the child was killed by falling tiles in a bathroom above a bath while she was in it. The issue was either weight or cement/plaster mix without being primed properly, or a mixture of both. Apparently it was down to the fault of the tiler.

I can't actually recall the story accurately is was years ago when I heard it. But it was told during training in the part about weights and debonding.

He took time off afterwards and didn't manage to get rid of the stutter properly. Not sure if he still has it now.

 

[AliGage]

The old BAL Director some years ago, who ended up running a tile shop after his time at BAL, apparently developed a stutter after having to inform parents of a child as to why the child was killed by falling tiles in a bathroom above a bath while she was in it. The issue was either weight or cement/plaster mix without being primed properly, or a mixture of both. Apparently it was down to the fault of the tiler.

I can't actually recall the story accurately is was years ago when I heard it. But it was told during training in the part about weights and debonding.

He took time off afterwards and didn't manage to get rid of the stutter properly. Not sure if he still has it now.

That's pretty awful

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

I wonder if he was a tiler or a builder/anybody can tile person. Sad news

 

[White Room]

The old BAL Director some years ago, who ended up running a tile shop after his time at BAL, apparently developed a stutter after having to inform parents of a child as to why the child was killed by falling tiles in a bathroom above a bath while she was in it. The issue was either weight or cement/plaster mix without being primed properly, or a mixture of both. Apparently it was down to the fault of the tiler.

I can't actually recall the story accurately is was years ago when I heard it. But it was told during training in the part about weights and debonding.

He took time off afterwards and didn't manage to get rid of the stutter properly. Not sure if he still has it now.

Should imagine that would effect anyone.....