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Gazz
Dave,Beanz,Grumpy & Smurf 21
Appreciate your points, well made. I note that you are complying with manufacturers guidlines & British Standards etc with regard to weight loads etc & I like yourselves, do not want to experience either myself or any member of my family sitting in the bath with a lump of travertine falling on their head.
I've actually bought the hardibacker for the main wall (1.8 metres wide X2 metres bath to ceiling: external brick wall, plastered). I've bought 2X1.5" wood lats which I'm fixing at 10" centres to the wall using 3" size 10 screws & appropriate wall plugs (wickes high performance). I'll screw the backerboard to this with 40mm aquapanel fixings (couldn't get hold of the hardibacker screws but was assured that the aquapanel ones would do the trick).
1. Will this set up be adequate for the full height wall?
I,m going to use Mapei cement based white adhesive to fix.
2. Can I be confident that the adhesive WILL hold the travertine immediately and for years to come: what is the load ratio of modern adhesives ie Kg per square metre, preumably greater than the load max of backerboard?
Even using the backerboard I am still a little wary about tiling the full wall (paranoid about a tile falling off even several years down the line. Am I right to be worried?
With regard to the half tiled walls. I'll be tiling two tiles high (36") maximum plus a border. I guess when I was questioning the loads, expansion gaps etc, the point I was trying to make was that the guidelines do not seem to consider the total area to be tiled. For example I can undersatand that to tile a 10m X 10m area with no expansion gap would be follish, but maybe it would be less of an issue tiling a 36" high area.
I'm going to strip the plaster up to 36" on these walls and fit plasterboard.
I really appreciate the advice you guys have given. It quickly became obvious from several of the tile shops which I visited, that the individuals dishing out the information had never laid a travertine tile in their life. One in particular, when questioned about the loads and when I described my walls simply stated I would have no problems and that a 1930's semi wall set up would be much stronger than the plasterboard wall of the new builds, just go ahead and do it, loads of people have done this: pity help them.
For info I ended up getting my tiles at Costco: they've got a turkish travertine, very pale in colour, but look to be very good quality (from my limited experience). They come in packs of 4, 18" X 18" at about £18.00 per sq yd.
Again sincere thanks for all the advice given: I'll no doubt have further questions as the job goes on.
Gazz
Appreciate your points, well made. I note that you are complying with manufacturers guidlines & British Standards etc with regard to weight loads etc & I like yourselves, do not want to experience either myself or any member of my family sitting in the bath with a lump of travertine falling on their head.
I've actually bought the hardibacker for the main wall (1.8 metres wide X2 metres bath to ceiling: external brick wall, plastered). I've bought 2X1.5" wood lats which I'm fixing at 10" centres to the wall using 3" size 10 screws & appropriate wall plugs (wickes high performance). I'll screw the backerboard to this with 40mm aquapanel fixings (couldn't get hold of the hardibacker screws but was assured that the aquapanel ones would do the trick).
1. Will this set up be adequate for the full height wall?
I,m going to use Mapei cement based white adhesive to fix.
2. Can I be confident that the adhesive WILL hold the travertine immediately and for years to come: what is the load ratio of modern adhesives ie Kg per square metre, preumably greater than the load max of backerboard?
Even using the backerboard I am still a little wary about tiling the full wall (paranoid about a tile falling off even several years down the line. Am I right to be worried?
With regard to the half tiled walls. I'll be tiling two tiles high (36") maximum plus a border. I guess when I was questioning the loads, expansion gaps etc, the point I was trying to make was that the guidelines do not seem to consider the total area to be tiled. For example I can undersatand that to tile a 10m X 10m area with no expansion gap would be follish, but maybe it would be less of an issue tiling a 36" high area.
I'm going to strip the plaster up to 36" on these walls and fit plasterboard.
I really appreciate the advice you guys have given. It quickly became obvious from several of the tile shops which I visited, that the individuals dishing out the information had never laid a travertine tile in their life. One in particular, when questioned about the loads and when I described my walls simply stated I would have no problems and that a 1930's semi wall set up would be much stronger than the plasterboard wall of the new builds, just go ahead and do it, loads of people have done this: pity help them.
For info I ended up getting my tiles at Costco: they've got a turkish travertine, very pale in colour, but look to be very good quality (from my limited experience). They come in packs of 4, 18" X 18" at about £18.00 per sq yd.
Again sincere thanks for all the advice given: I'll no doubt have further questions as the job goes on.
Gazz
