Exceeding substrate weight limits.

[widler]

I suppose im overloading on this job im doing now, 600x300 ceramics on walls that were painted skim.
BUT i scratched the skim and scraped 90% of it off revealing a sand/cement render,so ive primed with the TIlemaster green primer (TA i think)and tiled, and i kid thee not, i took one off the day after, i found a iccle chip on the corner, had to smash the bugger off !
Stuck like poo to a baby blanket

 

[Perry]

even better Dave who has seen a failure due to a wieght issue ?

 

[High Peak Tiling]

Ahh ok .. so full of poo then :lol:

shut your trap old man.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

even better Dave who has seen a failure due to a wieght issue ?

Pete I once had a failure due to weight issues, we were laying onto semi dry the same day using boards to spread the weight. I'm sure most older hands will have done this method.

Our failure was down to one of the tilers,he was 45 stone, beggered the screed up good style.:lol:

 

[High Peak Tiling]

How long you been trading.. ?

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.

 

[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.....