is it true? (large tiles at height)

[Stan001]

large format tiles more than 10mm thick and more than 3 metres from the floor will have to be mechanically fixed to the wall!

 

[brian c]

is it a shop front you are doing?

 

[Stan001]

no brian - somthing i heard today from a master tiler, something thats going to be in the new specs apparently. (but 3m would take this above a house design i have in a stairway area - not an issue now but might be in future for me). More a tec question - Im a learner ref many of these issues.

 

[Prem Tiler]

I wouldn't be surprised HSE and all that.

 

[brian c]

building regulations would be the best people to contact about this i think,always lots of rumours flying around though.

 

[Stan001]

i spoke with the guy who helps write the specs, he showed me on his laptop, he even explained to me how to do it (me being a 'retired' engineer an all that). I found it interesting, something i never thought about. I have a mate who builds what can only be described as mansions (i hope to do some work with him) and for a future project idea of mine i will also need to know this. I have a balcony at height on current project that if tiled at the walls (its not) would be effected. hummm - i dunno, so thought i would bounce it around here, because in honesty its easier not to tile above that height in the first place if i dont need to even though i have some funky design ideas.

 

[brian c]

contact pjc pete ,member on here who works in the commercial sector.

 

[diamondtiling]

There are some road tunnels on the A50 that are tiled extensively throughout their structure, I worked on part of them years ago, just after opening a section of tiles fell off hitting some cars below, the height was about 12 mts I think, We did not use any type of mechanical fixings and the tiles were fairly heavy, pilks if I remember correctly, and before anyone asks, no, it was not my section that fell. How are they fixed mechanically? I am trying to work that one out, surely not screwed? I will guess at some sort of frame to hold them as a failsafe?

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[Stan001]

diamond - yes they are screwed! .... a side slit is cut / ground into the side egde / corner egde of the tile (like putting buscuits into a worksurface) the edge of a washer is pushed into the slit (and an adjoining tile slit i guess) and a screw is put through the washer into the wall, thus retaining one or more tile edges! Then grouted over and hidden. Apparently there is a company that already specialises in these edge cuts but there must also be some way of cutting these on-site too. (hope i described that well as it was described to me - love to hear from an expert here - its an interesting little subject) ... Im in 'being educated mode' so if someone wants to correct me, then please do, thx.

 

[Perry]

:8:above 2.4 mts manically fix