Help!

[J Sid]

Tiles look a bit heavy for a plastered wall, plus a bag of adhesive every m2 🙁

 

[Bill]

The plaster was fine and didn't have any cracks whatsoever until them tiles went on.

The plaster looks a strange colour - plaster wouldn't crack just by having tiles on it, no matter how they are fixed.

Looks like loads of movement on the walls, joints not properly taped and definitely out of plumb.

 

[julie bw]

Ok thanks.should the tiler have known about this if he was a decent tiler.

 

[Bill]

Ok thanks.should the tiler have known about this if he was a decent tiler.

So get the plasterer back.............Probably not able to.

I am not defending the tiler but sometimes customers think it is a quick job to tile a bathroom - well it is if everything is done well. Many times the customer would not be prepared to pay for the cost of new walls that are true and plumb. Sometimes the tiler is between a rock and a hard place. This is also the tile shop problem as they should ask what the tiles are being fixed to and advise accordingly.

 

[Bill]

Another point - in the original post you mention that the wall was only skimmed - is that correct as the clinker/building block should ideally have an undercoat on - that being a plaster coat or a sand and cement render before the finish coat. Please clarify because if it is just a finish coat the moisture absorption may be too high for any other coatings.

 

[White Room]

Skimmed with a single plaster coat or a two part plaster system ?

The walls were mortared then skimmed over with plaster.thanks

first thing I thought of🙂

 

[Bill]

first thing I thought of🙂

So why put plaster on if it is to be tiled?........... I wish more builders would just use render - half our problems with adhesive would stop straight away!

 

[Bill]

Was the substrate ready to tile, as in completely dry as per building regulations?

 

[White Room]

So why put plaster on if it is to be tiled?........... I wish more builders would just use render - half our problems with adhesive would stop straight away!

We used to just render on commercial sites in shower areas for the underground guys....

 

[julie bw]

Another point - in the original post you mention that the wall was only skimmed - is that correct as the clinker/building block should ideally have an undercoat on - that being a plaster coat or a sand and cement render before the finish coat. Please clarify because if it is just a finish coat the moisture absorption may be too high for any other coatings.

If the tiler would have said the tiles won't go on that wall or they need this and that doing I'd have gone with it so the job is done correctly even if it is a bit more expensive.with regards to that wall it is clinker block which had been mortared the skimmed as far as I can remember.