newbie, 600x300 wall tiling in ensuite

[El Kabong!]

Hi,

Great forum

I have only ever helped with tiling before.... 45x45 floor tiles.

I am now about to tile my ensuite.

I have 600x600 porcelain floor tiles. I think I will be OK with this.

I have matching 600x300 wall tiles and I am a bit worried.

From browsing topics I have more or less decided not to do a brick pattern, and to just lay in straight vertical lines.

However, I'm not sure about surface prep.

I had to strip the room down to nothing. I am just about to put the plasterboard back on the studs. It is green "water resistant" and not that thick really, but very very heavy. I am just using drywall nails to tap it in.


Will this be enough for 600x300 porcelain tiles????

The tile I am using was not overly cheap. It is the Atlas Concorde Glow the technical specs can be found here:
http://www.atlasconcorde.it/filealbum/12639_0.pdf

Perhaps I should be using a different type of board, or different method of attaching it????

I have many many other questions but let's take things slowly....

Thanks.

[El Kabong!]

Sorry, that should have read "I am NOW about to tile my ensuite".

[Sir Ramic]

Sorry, that should have read "I am NOW about to tile my ensuite".

Thats what it says

[El Kabong!]

my own personal editor too.... neato thanks.

i need help getting this right. I ballsed up a radiator and ended up having to replace 15 of them and this room has been out of action for 2 months now

[Rich]

How thick is the plasterboard? If you screw it back to the studs correctly then it should be fine.

[kilty55]

hi kabong,i would screw the plasterboard onto the studs

i assume its 12.5mm thick...not sure you actually get m resis in 9mm anyways

[tiler bob]

hi mate , i would say take your time and dont rush it , make sure the walls are nice n flat and most importantly enjoy what you do .

[timeless john]

hi mate , i would say take your time and dont rush it , make sure the walls are nice n flat and most importantly enjoy what you do .

That sound's like the best advice I've heard on here for a while

El Kabong

[whitebeam]

Your'll find moisture resistant plasterboard come in at 12.5mm and needs screwing with a course thread to stud work..

[El Kabong!]

Hi, OK so it is 12.5mm and I will get herself to pick up some screws today.

The stuff is 8*4 and is REALLY heavy. I cannot move an 8*4 by myself. I am a bit weedy but it is a large piece.

So, I have resorted to cutting them in half. I was going to them fix up the gaps. I know this is probably going to defeat the purpose of the waterproofing but if the horizontal join is above 4 foot high then I guess it will not matter too much, where it counts... in the shower area.

Any thoughts?

[El Kabong!]

Oh I will take my time don't worry about that!

This started off as a small shower leak. I resealed it but that didn't work. So I took up the floor covering (some wierd fake wood lino strips on MDF(!) and then I had to take the shower tray out and then all the tiles had to come down as the plasterboard was sodden. So I stripped the room.

I am doing all this myself and don't have a clue. I drained the rad system to remove the rad in the ensuite. I put service valves on the entry to the rad for this room and filled the system back up but I couldn't bleed most of my other rads as the bleed valves were worn down... so I replaced 16 rads around the house. But the rads I bought were 3cm longer or slightly shorter than the ones in there (rubbish yokes). So I had to sort the pipework at one end of each rad. Then, the rad support brackets were in different places so for alot of them I had to cut holes in the wall and put in new supports. Then my heating pump broke so I replaced that. Then I needed a new circuit board in the boiler.

So now that is all fixed I am back to the ensuite!!!!!

[Rich]

My god. You have been having fun havnt you. Fair play

Really you want as few joins in the plasterboard as possible.