Sloping bathroom/ceiling

[rj1884]

Good afternoon all. Went to look at a job today. See pictures. The customer wants to remove existing tiles and replace with new tiles covering the same area as the existing tiles do. He seems to think that the person who tiled the existing area was a DIYer. My first question having not tiled a sloping wall before is is that the norm that the horizontal grout lines don't match up by that much.
The walls are plasterboard which more then likely will have to be repaired once the existing tiles are removed. The customer is looking at using 60x30 tiles on this area which I think maybe to heavy to fix to that particular wall. Can you give me some advise on the way to go about tiling this sloping wall/ceiling in particular the way of getting them to stay on the wall without them moving whilst the adhesive is drying. I normally use ardex adhesives and was thinking of X77.

Many thanks in advance..

 

[rj1884]

Hi all. Thanks very much of your advice. I shall chat to the customer and see what we can come up with. Again many thanks

 

[mike1979]

5?

5 ?? I thought it was 6 :lol:

 

[charlie1]

You can make the grout joints meet dependant on which way you fix the tiles and whether a tile larger than 60x30 is available.

If you fix landscape so the 30cm (side A) is vertical and the slope of the roof is 45 degrees, then the adjacent length will also be 30cm (side B).

Therefore, you multiply 30 x 30 (side A) answer is 900. The same for side B.

900 + 900 =1800

The square root of 1800 = 42.42

Then the minimum size of tile required would be 60x43. If they do a 60x45 then you will be able to match the joints on the sloping wall. Alternatively, 60x60 would also suffice.

Simples.

It's all down to the prep though. If you don't get that right and fix tiles to the slope then please provide customer a list of helmet sizes available and where to purchase :helmet:

Based on the extremely rare eventuality that the slope is set at 45 degrees then your logic may well work out john!!

 

[CJ]

:sofahide:Lost Me

 

[afright]

I bet he would have known.:idea3: