tiles on tiles

**garretridge** · 28-10-2008

got job coming up next week tiling on to tiles full bathroom told costomer it will look crap wouldnt listen. i can use batton stands around the walls but around bath and any other obstruction hard to batton on tiles any easy solutions would be appriciated!

**brian c** · 28-10-2008

fix battens to wall by drilling holes and fixing with rawl plugs.

**garretridge** · 28-10-2008

yea thought that didnt know if there was any other options!

GazTech · 28-10-2008

Small hot glue gun, prises easily back off the wall when 1st row is set....Gaz

**Daveyboy** · 28-10-2008

Tiling onto tiles??

Apart from the weight issues, not knowing how the existing tiles are fitted to the plaster and how sound the plaster is/bonded to the brickwork, how are you going to guarrantee your work. If any of the tiles fall off and injure someone, I think I'm right in saying your insurance is unlikely to pay out which means you will be personally liable...

I recently fully tiled a wall and as I was finishing, I decided to take a tile off and reset it because it wasn't sitting right. As I pried it off, all the plaster came with it right back to the brick. I had tested the wall for blown plaster but did not detect any. In the end, I had to remove/clean off all the tiles, strip off the old plaster and reboard the wall. I could have patched over the problem and the client would have been none the wiser, but it would have been a disaster waiting to happen, with my name on it...