Tavertine tiles Bathroom installation question

Provided you tile up from the bottom, and use spacers, the weight is all compression loads anyway, so tile away and don't worry.

No problem if the plasterboard is in good condition.

If using BAL, use White Star.

You will need to seal the tiles. I would use Lithofin MN StainStop, possibly with one layer of Lithofin MN Colour Enhancer.

Christian.

FWIW, I did something similar several years ago. I was told by the local "expert" that it was impossible to put these tiles on a wall and they were designed for floors only.

I don't like plasterboard as a backing for tiles, so I used 18mm WBP for the walls, and sealed the surface with an epoxy coating. The tiles were applied using a swimming pool tile adhesive, but I can't recall the name of the manufacturer. The tiles were also fitted very close together, because a large line of grout looks bloody awful with marble.

Hi 'The Natural Philosopher' I was planning to start tiling (using a fixed batton/s) from one row up from the bottom and all the way to the top and then I would do the bottom row last, would you think that this approach is still okay?

Thanks again.

Thanks Steve,

For the walls, if I go for your approach, what would be the minimum thickness of the WBP I can get away with as 18mm seems a bit too much. How would I fix the WBP on the plasterboard? I would prefer not to fix any battons to the wall in order to fix the WBP as the bathroom is very small.

Regards

Ah sorry, I'm not advocating you do what I did. I was working on a studwork wall and building a shower enclosure. So I removed plasterboard completely and made good afterwards.

Purrfect.

Unless I have a straight level line to star from, thats how I always do it anyway.

The other day we had "batons" and now it is "battons" ...lol...it is battens.

Stuart

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Unless you're marching with 'em, in which case it's back to batons again.

Many thanks for all your advice, it really has been very helpful

By the way, I really am a verry gud spellar!

Many thanks

Ali