Tiling a plastered bathroom Page: 2

[johncorleone]

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction as I've been going around in circles for months!

We recently had the existing tiles from an en-suite removed and the walls re-boarded in parts and re-plastered completely. Unfortunately that appears to have been our first mistake (when we thought we were making progress) 🙁 We really wanted travertine or limestone for the walls but through searching sites like this have found this will not be possible due to the weight and the plastered walls. However, when we asked our tiler about this he said it would be fine, and he'd be happy to put them up ?! (These were 12 mm tiles). I'm assuming from reading here that he is incorrect ?

Since we wrote those off and went looking again, we've since found some nice porcelain tiles which are 8mm but weigh in at 22Kg per sq. m. Do you think these would be ok to use on the plastered walls ? (I know they're more than 20Kg but is there any lee-way in this at all ?) If not, are all we can use on the plastered walls, ceramic tiles? We have looked at a ton of tile shops and not found a single ceramic tile which we've liked so I'm really hoping not :/

Any help or advice would be really appreciated as I'm being told one thing by our tiler and something completely different by forums like this and at this stage I've no idea what to do next 🙁

P.S. There will be a shower enclosure in the bathroom with 3 walls (which will be tiled, eventually we hope!). Can this tiling be done directly onto the plastered wall or do we need some kind of water-proof boarding ?

Cheers,

John

 

[GazTech]

Ok, thanks a lot for your help. Do you have any opinion on whether the "paramount" walls will have an affect on tile weights which can be supported ?

I've tried to find some information on the web regarding this type of construction of walls but it' been very hard to find anything useful.

Cheers,

John

paramount carry the same weight as plasterboard and aren't skimmed are they...therefore 32kg per m2, less adhesive and grout.....Gaz

 

[johncorleone]

Thanks a lot for all the advice folks, really appreciate it. We found some ceramic stone effect tiles which weigh in at 16.5Kg per square metre so I think we're going to go with those 🙂

Cheers,

John

 

[brian c]

Are you getting the original tiler in to do the job John?

 

[johncorleone]

Are you getting the original tiler in to do the job John?

Good question, given the poor advice we've been given in the past couple of months, we're going to try and get a few other quotes and hopefully go with someone else.