Tiling on skimmed plasterboarded walls

[Rookery]

Yes he's probably a smidge over the 20kgs per sq mtr limit as advised by BS but only just. In any event, the BS is an advisory limit which must have a tolerance, to a degree. As long as the substrate is sound, I'd have no hesitation in putting those tiles on that wall. Blimey, lets not try and kill off tiling altogether eh.

 

[charlie1]

jesus charlie,you have said this before,you must have some rough *** plasterers up your way:lol:

Wilder there is only 1 or 2 I trust, have come across some truly shocking plastering work up here, honest, I've seen them fail dot dabbing a wall then having to reskim!

 

[charlie1]

Yes he's probably a smidge over the 20kgs per sq mtr limit as advised by BS but only just. In any event, the BS is an advisory limit which must have a tolerance, to a degree. As long as the substrate is sound, I'd have no hesitation in putting those tiles on that wall. Blimey, lets not try and kill off tiling altogether eh.

I agree! Make sure you get no less than 60% coverage and you should have no issues imo

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

when you tile a wall straight off the floor. the wieght of the wall tiles is transfered to the floor by vertical tiling so the floor will take up to 30% of the wieght if you were tiling at a 45 degre angle then all wieght would be on the board so you have no wieght issuses here tile away. they need a lott more work on bs not just stating what the vested intressed tell them so they can make more money. thats why its not law only advisery no bodys done the real work to back it up. just cut and pasted from the usa version thats where 15 mm ply came from when it was not even avalball in the uk

 

[Rookery]

Good standards must apply but so must common sense. I've turned down much needed work in the past e.g. sticking up 12mm trav on freshly plastered bathroom walls (3 days old), that would have been 50% over the BS standard.