Wall hung basin

[CDS]

Can I run this one past you and get your opinions.

Just started a complete bathroom refit, walls and floor in 10mm travertine. Have fitted 12.5mm plasterboard to the basin wall (external wall) which has been dot and dabbed with close on half a bag of adhesive per board. This afternoon the customer appears with a wall hanging basin.... my initial reaction..... :yikes:.

I'm thinking neither Travertine or the substrate are anywhere near sound enough for a wall hanging basin? Am I being overcautious or is a wall hanging basin a viable option?

Additional info - Sufficient wall to use Fischer fittings, customer doesnt want visible brackets so additional support isn't an option. Oh, and there's a 3 year in the house.

Cheers Chris

 

[david campbell]

you would need to screw this directly into a dwang in the studwork,i can't see plasterboard holding it

 

[doug boardley]

With David on this, although I call a dwang a noggin

 

[kilty55]

i wouldnt risk it either,defo need a fixing

 

[faithhealer]

I think you will get away with it, fisher fittings are long enough to get a hold in the brick. if you want to screw them in further (past the flats) put two nuts on the thread and lock together and use them to srew the fittings in further.
(you did say it was dot and dabbed onto an external wall didn't you)

 

[White Room]

Normally when dot and dabbing plasterboard in bathrooms extra dabs would be used where fixtures and fittings will be going............

Fixings can then be fixed into the wall thru dabs of dry wall adhesive, which avoids the plasterboard being dragged back/bowed when fixing and the tiles cracking.

 

[Gazzer]

Can you not remove a section of plasterboard , just enough for the size of the basin and replace with Ply screwed into the wall and then fasten basin to the ply ?

 

[doug boardley]

oops missed the bit about it being a dot and dabbed external wall, struggle to get a dwang in that!!

 

[Colour Republic]

How big is this basin?

 

[strummerman]

oops missed the bit about it being a dot and dabbed external wall, struggle to get a dwang in that!!

not on some of the dry lining you see around here you will av no problem

 

[CDS]

Can you not remove a section of plasterboard , just enough for the size of the basin and replace with Ply screwed into the wall and then fasten basin to the ply ?

That is an option.

Is travertine stong enough? In my eyes its relatively soft and crumbles easily???

Colour Republic - Basin is 51cm wide and 41cm deep, rectangular.

Cheers.C

 

[Gazzer]

Travertine wont be strong enough alone, you will need something behind to screw into. Are there screws or bolts supplied with basin ?

 

[CDS]

Travertine wont be strong enough alone, you will need something behind to screw into. Are there screws or bolts supplied with basin ?

There are but I wouldn't use them to hang a bog roll holder!!

 

[Daz]

Is it just me that thinks that the plasterboard is not really strong enough to hold the travertine, let alone a wall hung basin?

 

[DHTiling]

10mm trav.. fine..