Calculating what load a wall can bear.

[JamesBrownLive]

How do you go about calculating what sort of load, weight per sq metre, different wall types can sustain?

Are there given standards that are available?

Cheers

[deanotile]

first of all you will need a long weight

[Dave]

Are we talking wall backgrounds,, as in substrates..?

[tfs]

first of all you will need a long weight

then hit it with a glass hammer!

[Alan.P]

A guide is to be found



HERE

[JamesBrownLive]

Are we talking wall backgrounds,, as in substrates..?

Yes, as in what are the given limits for different substrate types.

Cheers

[whitebeam]

What are you tiling onto and what tiles

[JamesBrownLive]

first of all you will need a long weight

I picture is worth a thousand words ;-)

[Dave]

The link above should help.. if you have any more questions then please do ask..