Tiling onto pocket door system

[monkey3]

Hi guys,

I'm about to start tiling the en suite and I had a sudden thought about how to tile up to the edge of the pocket door system that separates the room from the bedroom and so I started to do some research on google only to find that everyone seems to say "don't do it".

oh-oh.

The door system is an eclisse syntesis (Home - Eclisse - Sliding Door Systems) and is already fitted. The bedroom side is plastered and painted and the en suite side is aquaboarded and ready to be tiled. The tiles are 400 x 600 honed travertine.

Is this something that people actually find to be an issue?
I don't really want to have to but I could remove the aquaboard on the en suite side and build a narrow frame but it would reduce the size of an already fairly small room.

Another option would be to fit some ply to the pocket frame fist and then aquaboard to that but that would then leave me a narrow lip all the way around the door...

Thanks for any help you can give me,

Regards,

Russell.

p.s. The reason I was looking was to try to work out how to finish the tiles at the edge of the door opening surround but I guess I can come back to that...

 

[monkey3]

Any takers?
Has anyone done this?

My intention was to begin tiling this weekend but I may end up with the 18mm ply option as I'm guessing if there's any flex the tiles will end up on the floor.

Or rather than the 18mm ply it might be better to go for 2 lots of 9mm ply bonded together, thus laminating the layers giving a bit more strength (although this is essentially the same as a piece of 18mm ply).

Thanks again for any advice.

Russell.

 

[Diggy]

Never seen it before myself , but had a quick look at the pdf and vids of the product and your issue seems to be that there is no architrace to cut to?

If this is the case how about creating say a 100mm border/frame form your trav around the apperture then cut your tiling into that?

Diggy

 

[monkey3]

Thanks Diggy.

That's the issue I was originally looking into but the problem everyone seems to refer to is that there is too much flex in the wall in front of the pocket. This will obviously cause problems once the tiles are fitted.

I'm assuming with too much flex they will end up on the floor rather than the grouting cracking which I can live with.

Russell.

 

[Diggy]

Ah I see , flimsy metal frame jobby. Like you said probably just needs bracing first . How about using something like WEDI board?

Diggy

 

[Diggy]

Scratch the wedi idea , .

Have you contacted the maker of the product yet? Most Co.s have a technical dept and may be able to offer some guidance as to the stability of the product etc.

Diggy