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?

 

[Ian]

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

BAL whitestar is probably the best ready mixed but, it's a lot of money for what you get. A slow set powdered adhesive will last just as long in the bucket but, cost half the price and do a better job.

 

[PMM9BRO]

Pulled it off after unscrew the screw heads, I have put the batten on again and replaced the tiles should I take the batten of in a couple of hours

 

[Ian]

Pulled it off after unscrew the screw heads, I have put the batten on again and replaced the tiles should I take the batten of in a couple of hours

Dont remove it until the adhesive has fully set, 24 hours minimum I'd say. You still really need to address the paint issue and your tiles are a little on the large side for ready mixed adhesive. Do it right now or you will almost certainly have issues in the future.

 

[AliGage]

I think what you've perhaps done is got adhesive on the batten and pulled it off rather than knock it off. The adhesive on the batten has dried quickly and the adhesive holding your tiles on wasn't quite dry.

You can leave the batten on as long as you like. For tubbed adhesive it needs to be atleast 24 hours though. Run a stanley blade gentley between the tile and the batten before unscrewing. The using the handle end of a hammer tap the batten down to take it off.

 

[Martyn Leeds]

So the tiles are 360mm x 265mm yeah???

A bit too big for tubbed stuff. It will probably say on the tub re max size as well.

Get some slow setting cement bagged stuff. Or you'll be back on this forum in a few weeks/months/days asking more questions as to why they have failed.

If you've any un-opened tubbs and your receipts, I'm sure the retailer will exchange/refund etc...

 

[Mr T]

also make sure your putting enough pressure on the tiles with a slight twisting motion...... what a pro! and I would also check the rest of the tiles you have put on the wall just incase this is the actual issue

 

[PMM9BRO]

Thanks to everyone for posts so far, I have decided to use the tub adhesive recommended earlier in this thread, I have installed green boards in my shower area,mean no one advise do I need to pva the green plasterboard and the normal boards before tiling?

 

[Mr T]

no not pva... use a primer on the boards you can get it from any tile shop

 

[jwatson]

no pva!!!!!!! if u are using bal white star no need to bond on plasterboard.
it is made from acrylic substance.
before you continue on this project i advise you make the most of this site. can be a very costly thing getting it wrong. massive issue tiling on paint aswel.

 

[Mr T]

yeh would also advise to put some pics up and see a few opinions on how to continue... last thing you want to do is mess up the job and later find out there was a much simpler way of doing it lol