Practising tiling/plastering

[Stevev]

Hi,
I want to practice tiling and plastering in my out house. I'm hoping to put a battern frame on a wall of my outhouse and screw sheet plywood to it to use for tiling practise. Could anyone advise what thickness plywood and what size batterns? any more advice would be great

many thanks

 

[Old Mod]

Don't use ply!
Is this permanent or just to practice?
Are u ripping it down after?

 

[Dan]

Get a sheet of plasterboard in the garage / shed, and keep tiling on top of the tiles. When it collapses, bin it, and get another.

 

[Stevev]

Don't use ply!
Is this permanent or just to practice?
Are u ripping it down after?

its just practise and remove tiles to put more up

 

[Dan]

Get some adhesive that training centres use, that doesn't stick, and then tile to chipboard or whatevery they recommend as a substrate for it.

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If you make a small telephone box style thing with hinges you can fold up and put away when you're not using it, you can keep tiling it, and stick some windows and small plug sockets in it and stuff.

Do a tiny bathroom per week.

 

[Old Mod]

its just practise and remove tiles to put more up

Oh ok well u can use anything u like pretty much then to be fair.
I think Ardex do a non setting adhesive for exactly that purpose!

 

[White Room]

How are you going to practice the plastering ???

 

[Stevev]

How are you going to practice the plastering ???

If I can screw a battern frame to the wall....half the wall can be plywood for tiling and half with plasterboard screwed on and then put coats of plaster on it

 

[Dan]

Yeah you'll be alright with that then.

 

[White Room]

Are you practising to go out and be a bona fide tradesman or just do bits at your own place...

 

[Old Mod]

It's Weber who do training adhesive at CTD!

 

[Stevev]

Are you practising to go out and be a bona fide tradesman or just do bits at your own place...

yes being a professional tiler is an option as I'm between jobs but looking....looking at taking an employed job for while and practise tiling and decided if going self-employed tiler is an option. It is something I'm interested in. I've done a course.Even though tiling and plastering can be back breaking, I actually enjoy the fact I'm creating something for someone rather than just pushing paper that appears to make no difference.