Levelling out walls

[Alan.P]

The trouble with using a smaller notched trowel on an uneven wall is, well, what your experiencing, the tile will follow the wall, with a bigger notch trowel it takes up many deviations, also, what area of wall are you spreading at a time ? if you do a large area and trowel it either vertically or horizontally to achieve a consistent bed, you shouldn't go far wrong.

 

[cornish_crofter]

The trouble with using a smaller notched trowel on an uneven wall is, well, what your experiencing, the tile will follow the wall, with a bigger notch trowel it takes up many deviations, also, what area of wall are you spreading at a time ? if you do a large area and trowel it either vertically or horizontally to achieve a consistent bed, you shouldn't go far wrong.

Ah I see Alan, thank you.

I must admit with the Weber rapid set I was applying adhesive to a small area at a time.

The good news is that I do have a couple of larger notche trowels and some Weber slow set now.

I have tidied up for now and will be back after Chrstmas. I was going to work til the 24th, which would probably have given me enough time for the tiling but not for the finishing, plumbing, refitting of the suite etc. So new year, fresh mind etc and less pressure.

I've not got anything pencelled in for new year yet, so that is the first job.

 

[devonmark]

when I was a lad...... we used to put "grounds" on our walls to make sure we got them flat, 'beam, jay and devonmark will know what I mean

yep...and when screeding a floor, foolproof

 

[cornish_crofter]

it's more to do with plastering basecoats Hugo, using striaght edges fixed at top and bottom of the walls, but had to be straight and plumb, so that you could just run your straight edge along to get a perfectly flat rendered wall

Ah I see Doug!

Done that many a time with walls. I also used it to do the main screed on this job. 2 straight edges at a predetermined fall and literally fill and drag the screed into place. That bit worked perfectly, just a shame I rushed the edges a bit.

A retired builder I know used to make a couple of ridges out of screed/render, flatten them with his straight edge then use them to level up against. It wasn't something I could get used to.