Heavy Wall Tiles On Plasterboard

I started at the top over the bath and to begin.

Heavy wall tiles on plasterboard.

Most tanking kits also have a circa 30kg limit. Fixing heavy tiles to bare plaster bathroom wall. I m in the process of installing a shower room in my house. If the tiles are heavy you d be better of with boards such marmox wedi pcs etc.

Hi i have just started re tiling my bathroom with some heavy ish ceramic tiles. At the lowest point of the wall to which tiles are being fixed such as the skirting board work surface etc. It was tiled on before and despite being plasterboard it is very stable. It s pretty obvious that you would like to fix cabinets to your walls but you simply cannot fix it straight to the plasterboard.

This is equivalent to ceramic tiles with a maximum thickness of 8mm plus tile adhesive or natural stone tiles with a maximum thickness of 7mm plus tile adhesive. In today s video i run through the best options for hanging a heavy picture on a plasterboard wall. Most natural stone is at least 10mm thick and often up to 20mm thick the weight of tiling to a plasterboard background direct without plaster skim should not exceed 32kg m. The room size is 1 4m wide x 3 2 m long x 2 4m high.

They have very high weight limits and are waterproof so don t need tanking. Un skimmed plasterboard has a tile adhesive weight limit of 32kg per square metre. Fixing heavy cabinet to plasterboard wall. At the end of the day it s not a solid wall of bricks.

Place an uncut tile and draw a line along the top of the tile. In areas which will be subject to wetting i e. Hi i have just started re tiling my bathroom with some heavy ish ceramic tiles. Power showers heavy duty showers the plasterboard should be tanked using norcros wet seal tanking membrane prior to.

The tiles i am hanging are ceramic 250mm x 330mm and 8mm thick so they are largish but not unusually so. If you love my content and would like to send me a couple. The problem was that the. Unfortunately there are no plasterboard fixings.

One of the questions i get asked regularly is how to fix heavy items such as a tv to plasterboard or drywall.