Travertine Wall Tiles

[grumpygrouter]

I don't fully understand some of the terms & proceedures you guys use over there.
I have laid up to 600 x600 travertine on walls here without an issue. As long as the walls are built properly they should take any weight you can throw at them. Our walls are built with either aluminium or pine studs and cement sheeting, usually. With the occasional brick & or rendered walls, in domestic situations.
I would like to point out that the building of the walls over here are the builder/chippys responsiblity. Reading some of these threads it seems some of you guys build your own?

Cement board is only just really starting to be used more over here. Most of our construction is plaster or plasterboard (gypsum) based. This doesn't have the same strength as cement board so we need to be a little more careful.

 

[Gracer]

Cement board is only just really starting to be used more over here. Most of our construction is plaster or plasterboard (gypsum) based. This doesn't have the same strength as cement board so we need to be a little more careful.

Ah fair enough...I don't think I'd like to be sticking heavy tiles onto gyprock either. Onto render should be fine though.

 

[beanz]

If you check out this link Beanz, you will get an indication of what I am thinking.

Tiles and Adhesive Weight Per Square Metre - THE TILE SOURCE

Stone is much denser than ceramic so I tend to err on the side of caution when giving advice on here. Obviously the fixer has to make the call and the end decision is up to him/her if they want to work so close to the limits.

Thanks for the link, much appreciated. That's going straight in my bookmarks! 😉

 

[tile55]

If you check out this link Beanz, you will get an indication of what I am thinking.

Tiles and Adhesive Weight Per Square Metre - THE TILE SOURCE

Stone is much denser than ceramic so I tend to err on the side of caution when giving advice on here. Obviously the fixer has to make the call and the end decision is up to him/her if they want to work so close to the limits.

Aswell as the tiles themselves you need to remember the addy and grout when thinking about weight issues.