Tiling a ply former with ceramic tiles? - Tile Advice

[Flintstone]

Start one up mate, let's hear those stories, I have loads!

 

[Qwerty]

Done already!!!...its in the arms

 

[John Benton]

Water and ply do not mix well together, keep them well away from each other!!!! Unless you like open plan living (between floors)

Quite how this wall stayed upright is beyond me. It was 12mm ply that just turned to mush!!!

 

[Blunt Tool]

Water and ply do not mix well together, keep them well away from each other!!!! Unless you like open plan living (between floors)

Quite how this wall stayed upright is beyond me. It was 12mm ply that just turned to mush!!!

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That's shocking

 

[Old Mod]

Quite how this wall stayed upright is beyond me. It was 12mm ply that just turned to mush!!!

I remember that job John,
amazing transformation!

 

[Bathfix Bob]

The worst I've seen is tiles fixed straight to untreated MDF in a shower, the bottom row swelled up like that Hedgehog that they had to pop.

 

[Flintstone]

I sorted one just before xmas, it was a raised up wet tray, a wooden frame with a piece of mdf on top and a drain grafted in the middle then mosaic. They only realised there was a problem when the shower door started catching the tiles as the mdf had swelled! To top it off the soil pipe was hanging off behind a stud wall and was leaking for 2 years, lovely

 

[Tilerdurden]

Epic FAIL!

 

[Tilerdurden]

In this day and age with the multitude of high quality materials on the market to make our jobs run so much sweeter and give clients installations longevity why do people still insist on cutting corners and using prehistoric methods which always FAIL EpIClY cue music Bob the builder!

 

[Flintstone]

On this subject I had a builder call me yesterday to book me in for a wet room job, to tank it etc and tile. they have screeded the floor and put a drain and in 'made some fall'.

 

[John Benton]

On this subject I had a builder call me yesterday to book me in for a wet room job, to tank it etc and tile. they have screeded the floor and put a drain and in 'made some fall'.

Is the fall away from the drain

 

[Flintstone]

Probably John! Has done this before a couple of years ago and I made him chop it all out and put a former in so will probably end up the same way

 

[Paul R Cox]

Thanks to everyone who replied. After much consideration I've decided to take no chances and go for a regular shower tray!

 

[Tilerdurden]

Thanks to everyone who replied. After much consideration I've decided to take no chances and go for a regular shower tray!

Hope it wasn't the horror stories that out you off!