Tiling Tips: Is there a weight limit when tiling a wall?

[ythan]

thanks for the photo, whitebeam. yes, looks like poor plastering - the skim coat looks very thick. Probably even thin tiles would have had a problem here.

i think the photo illustrates the need to check out the plaster for soundness, maybe even do a trial tile fixing to check the plaster. i still think the normally adopted weight rules are over restrictive and can result in a lot of unnecessary cost & work.

the weight rules don't stop problems with poor plastering.

 

[Perry]

Beam did you have to call a plasterer in?

 

[White Room]

No Pete, I had to sort it out:smilewinkgrin:

 

[ythan]

be very interested to learn how you sorted it out.

 

[White Room]

be very interested to learn how you sorted it out.

All the tiles had to be ripped off, the only good thing is the tiles had only just been fixed so the easily removed.

All loose areas of plaster had to be removed and tiles cleaned, the room looked like a bomb site and I spent about 2 hours cleaning up, the customer was'nt impressed.

Pva and reskimmed where was required and left to dry, job delayed waiting plaster to dry out.

 

[ythan]

thanks whitebeam, just another couple queries for learning:

how did you satisfy yourself that other the areas of skimmed plaster were sound?
i assume the tile weight was within the weight rules, but if it wasn't, what would you have then done?

 

[White Room]

thanks whitebeam, just another couple queries for learning:

how did you satisfy yourself that other the areas of skimmed plaster were sound?
i assume the tile weight was within the weight rules, but if it wasn't, what would you have then done?

I scraped another area with a scraper and found that loose as well which I removed, there was some plaster undercoat on the the lower areas which was solid but higher parts of the plastering was suspossingly been pva'ed and skimmed...not on your life.

The worrying part was where the plaster was being pulled off the wall was where the bath was going to be, for some reason the client preferred that the bath was fitted after the tiling.