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..

 

[mache]

I'm not a tiler but the only way you would get the horizontal grout lines to match on the sloping ceiling to horizontal wall would be to use oversize tiles and cut back to size.
Regards
Martin

 

[CJ]

Sod that.......600x300 on that slope........whilst your below having a soak in a steaming bath. No thanks.

 

[rj1884]

Thanks for your replies. CJ that's exactly what I thought.

 

[kilty55]

i would suggest keraquik and latex 2 part..have fixed rooms like that in the past onto well secured boards

 

[widler]

U should have no problem, why not screw hardi or something similar and tile away,the weight will be no problem.
Props will hold them while it sets, screwfix do some for around 20 quid

 

[CJ]

Don't care........I know stuff will fix them, but I wouldn't feel safe sitting under a 600x300x10. Especially if they turn up with porcelain.

 

[widler]

You have prob walked under hundreds of buildings with ceilings tiled all over the country , do you walk around with a hardhat on daily ?

You must not be very sure of your fixing if your worried about a few tiles falling off on a angled ceiling.

Theres a thread on here with someone tiling a ceiling, sure it was a regular poster

 

[CJ]

I have tiled a fair few slopes, and the odd ceiling, but not in 600x300.

 

[widler]

Theres stone cladding stuck upside down much much bigger than 600x300 on buildings everywhere.

Ive stuck 3 mt Lengths of cornice on skimmed ceilings/walls which take 3 of us to hold up , stuck and still stuck.
If its done right it holds