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McDogger

Guys hope you can help I am looking to tile my bathroom and the wife wants 10mm procelain that weigh about 25 kg per M2, I live in a new build house (4years old) and all the walls are internal platerboard cavity metal stud. ive been told that the max load for this should be 32 kg per M2 but the tiler I am looking to use has suggested plying over the top with 9 mm ply and screwing that through the plasterboard and into the metal to stud to give extra support can anyone confirm if this is good advice?

Also the wall area is around 20 M2 so the tile weight will be almost half a ton this sounds huge to me can anyone advise???

Thanks for your help.
 
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Mike Mike

I seen last week on site, 20mm stone fixed to double layed plasterboard. The stone was 600x1200, finished height 1200mm. The glue behind them was around 10mm. Is this feasible with the 2xplasterboard and that height, or is it inevitable to have problems?

That's an interesting question. Gut reaction is "hell no, that's way too heavy, plasterboard is 32kg/m2 period, no matter how many sheets are screwed together, because it's the tensile strength of the paper to the gypsum that matters.

But gut reactions aren't always based on fact, or correct.

I think you should contact the manufacturer of the plasterboard and ask them, or the tile adhesive manufacturer. We double board sometimes here, but it is more to do with avoiding water vapour penetration to timber framed house core structures than trying to allow heavier tiles to be fixed.
 
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Ian

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