travertine bathroom

[spaced69]

Hi guys

this is my 1st experience with travertine 🙂
i am tiling my upstairs bathroom 1.8m x 1.8m completely. The tiles, adhesive, sealer are being delivered next week. The supplier has assured me that it is ok to fix to new plaster as i recently plastered all walls. And he suggests usin acrylic primer on walls and also suggests using 1/4 marine ply for the floor.

Does this sound ok or any tips welcome.

Thnx Carl

ps on a strict budget as bloody mrs talked me into travertine as oposed to std ceramic

 

[enduro]

Does not matter how small the room is...The plaster will not take the weight, and you could have a failure and a tile could fall from the wall causing injury to someone if it hit them. DO NOT USE ON PLASTER WALLS.

 

[faithhealer]

I wonder what quality the adhesive is too. I bet your tiles wont look like the photo either. I know money has changed hands but phone and haggle. Tell them you have spoken to pro tilers and quote british standard weight issues to them, you have been mis sold this product

 

[Rich]

Oh dear

How do these people get away with it?

Everybody above is right Im afraid, the tiles are to heavy for those walls and 6mm ply should never be used on any floor.

Why retailers have to advise their customers with such bad advice is beyond me, I would be straight on the phone and giving them an ear full, you have been given terrible advice from somebody that should know better :mad2:

I really hope you can sort it out without to much hassle.

 

[Rich]

Just wanted to add to the above post that there are some really good retailers who give the right advice and sell their customers the right products. That is why it is so annoying when retailers who dont have a clue decide that they should advice people without the foggiest idea what they are on about.

 

[spaced69]

how about bare plasterboard ?
it can take nearly double weight than plaster....would this suffice if screwed appropriately...will have to get cement boards for floor

 

[Rich]

Plasterboard should be fine as long as it is screwed properly, you will still need to primethe walls but not the backer boards on the floor. Also you will need to glue AND screw the backer boards to the floor to make sure that there are no voids under them.

 

[spaced69]

great thnx for that 😉
i assume an acrylic primer would suffice

 

[doug boardley]

no need for a primer on plasterboards spaced, only on the exposed edges

 

[diamondtiling]

Just wanted to add to the above post that there are some really good retailers who give the right advice and sell their customers the right products. That is why it is so annoying when retailers who dont have a clue decide that they should advice people without the foggiest idea what they are on about.

I agree with you Richard there are too many retailers giving out poor advice all the time.

:mad2:

 

[Rich]

no need for a primer on plasterboards spaced, only on the exposed edges

With powder addy on plasterboard?