tiling over backing paper.

[andy-h]

priced a job up for a friend at w/end b/room walls but parts of the walls still have backing paper on them & he cant be bothered to remove so i told im i'll remove for a price but he wants me just to till over,tiles are 600x300 ceramics would it be ok to tile over paper its well stuck.

[wetdec]

no m8 afraid not

[dock]

andy-h

NOT A CHANCE

paper probably stuck with pva based wall paper adhesive so tile adhesive will probably reactivate it then you will have over 20Kg/M2 of tiles and adhesive hanging off it!!!!

Not a good move. Tell your friend to remove it because if you tile it its an expensive way of stripping the walls and preparing them to be tiled properly

dock

[Sean Kelly]

Andy, one of my first tilng jobs was to tile a kitchen that the customer had only painted about 1 week before I was to tile it. The customer told me it was ok to tile onto paint. I got a wet sponge and held it to the wall for about 90 seconds. The fresh paint turned back into soggy wet paint. Just imagine if I had tiled onto this surface. i.e. adhesive is wet.......and tiles are heavy. I spent a day sanding the paint off. The same would apply to backing paper. Cheers Sean

[andy-h]

thanks chaps thought so.