tiling onto wedi board

[tileunique]

thanks for the new user welcomes, you lot are a friendly bunch it seems, which is good cause im going to be testing your patience over the next..who knows how long! Right, im tiling onto wedi board in the next few weeks{several bathrooms] some of which arn't perfectly flat and level, do i level them first or use extra adhesive in those areas, the difference in level is about 10mm in places. While im picking brains, what ady would you guys recommend, tiles are porcelain, 10mm thick, and i need to cut holes for waste, tap feeds etc, who does the best drill bits? i have plenty more questions but i dont want to freeze anyones brain....

[Dave]

Hi...

Try and flatten the walls out first before affixing the wedi..

Adhesive depends on what you can get local to you.. flexible would be my choice and slower setting for the tiling..

Best hole cutters..? again depends how much you want to spend buy you will not go wrong with the 365 drills.. link on the left of the page..

[Fliselege]

thanks for the new user welcomes, you lot are a friendly bunch it seems, which is good cause im going to be testing your patience over the next..who knows how long! Right, im tiling onto wedi board in the next few weeks{several bathrooms] some of which arn't perfectly flat and level, do i level them first or use extra adhesive in those areas, the difference in level is about 10mm in places. While im picking brains, what ady would you guys recommend, tiles are porcelain, 10mm thick, and i need to cut holes for waste, tap feeds etc, who does the best drill bits? i have plenty more questions but i dont want to freeze anyones brain....

Don't know about anyone else but when we price a job, we price it in mind to go straight in and tile. We'll get over the odd obstacle but if I'm reading you right, then we'd call back the carpenters or whoever put up the wedi to put their work right. Our policy is our tiling is only as good as the walls we're given, unless of course part of our price is to straighten walls. Good luck with it!

[nybor62]

as dave as said get the walls as flat as poss, flexi addy and grout

[tileunique]

Cheers guys, the chippys are back on site monday so i'll get them to sort it out. Also ill get the 365 drill bits and see how i go.

[pjc]

Don't know about anyone else but when we price a job, we price it in mind to go straight in and tile. We'll get over the odd obstacle but if I'm reading you right, then we'd call back the carpenters or whoever put up the wedi to put their work right. Our policy is our tiling is only as good as the walls we're given, unless of course part of our price is to straighten walls. Good luck with it!

We would love that to happen here but we always pay them to do it they do it wrong then we have to do it free or charge or the customer pays for it again

[Fliselege]

We would love that to happen here but we always pay them to do it they do it wrong then we have to do it free or charge or the customer pays for it again

That's the curse of our job, the tiling is the finished product, what we tile on is never seen again, we try to get the job of putting up the boards and membraning ourselves when we can as we know to do it flat as we can for our own sake.