Tiling my en-suite

[PMM9BRO]

Hi Folks

I'm looking to tile my en-suite and have a few questions, the area is 14m2

adhesive and wall grout to use, the tiles are 360mm x 265mm?

I'm going to replace the plaserboard around the shower base, should i replace it with aquaboard and will this save me from having to tank this area?

should i get the showerbase installed first before tiling that area or should i leave a row out for whre the base will go.

Should i use the the suretile spacers if not what spacers and how may mm space should there be?

Could you direct me to a video that would show me how to tile around windows?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[Mr T]

im not very experienced...... leave it there haha

 

[White Room]

Are your tiles ceramic or porcelain....

 

[Martyn Leeds]

As above, type & size of tiles first please...

How much experience do we have?
Have we thought about getting a few quotes from some tilers in your area??

 

[PMM9BRO]

They are ceramic tiles

 

[PMM9BRO]

Ceramic tiles, size 360mm x 265mm

 

[PMM9BRO]

Hi there

i have started en suite job and have been doing, just one snag so far- I tiled from my battens last night and removed the battens today at about 5pm and the bottom row of bout 4 tiles fell off, any ideas why this would happen, the rest of the tiles above seem ok, I'm applying adhesive on top of plasterboard that was painted before with bathroom pain should I put something on th wall before applying defensive, any help would be appreciated , tried to post a new thread with no successsuccess

 

[rupert]

Did you tile directly onto the painted plasterboard?

Plasterboard requires priming as per adhesive manufacturers instructions before stick tiles on...

 

[Ian]

The paint isn't a surface you should be tiling to. Has the adhesive come away from the paint or the tile away from the adhesive? Also what adhesive are you using.

 

[PMM9BRO]

The adhesive remained on the wall, they seemed to come loose when I removed the batten, the rest of tiles seem so far, should I get a ova or something to put on the wall beforehandbeforehand

 

[PMM9BRO]

Adhesive is called home plan heavy duty

 

[PMM9BRO]

Should I have removed the batten earlier

 

[Ian]

Houseplan, that's a ready mixed isn't it? Made by palace, you'd be better off with a slow setting cement based (powdered that you add water to), something like weber set plus. And you need to get rid of the paint, sand it down or steam it off.

 

[PMM9BRO]

I'm a novice at this and would prefer the ready mixed stuff, is there a ready mixed adhesive that you would recommend, I did sand down the paint before I did anything

 

[AliGage]

Did you prime?
When you took your batten off did you pull it or knock it down the way?