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Default Advice on tiling with 60cm x 30cm wall tiles

Can anyone please give me some advice on tiling with 60cm x 30cm wall tiles. I think the tiles are ceramic and approx 9mm thick. I also have a marble border.

I am revamping my shower room and really need some advice. I have tiled before but never with tiles of this size so need some expert advice.

The walls are not very good plaster - there are large patches where the old tiles pulled plaster off with them. So I am going to plasterboard the walls - I had considered stripping all plaster and attaching tiles directly to the breeze block but don't know if this is feasible. For the shower area I have purchased aquapanel board (but I couldn't afford to do the full room with this). I will be battening the walls and attaching 12.5mm plasterboard, from that point I am stuck, so any advice on the following will be really appreciated.

1. Do I need to do any further prep to the plasterboard?
2. Which adhesive should I use for this size tile? - I have heard that large tiles can sometimes have problems due to adhesive not setting in the centre!!
3. Should it be flexible? - I am assuming plasterboard may be subject to slight movement!!
4. Should the border be treated after installation due to porosity?
5. What is a really effective grout that is mould / fungal resistant?

Sorry to ask so many questions, but, I want to make sure I do this right. Many thanks for any advice you can provide.

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Default Re: Advice on tiling with 60cm x 30cm wall tiles

Hello lianne and welcome to the forums.......

You will need to get them walls as flat as you can with that format of tile.......
Adhesive wise i would use a single part flexible , BAL SPF is good...don't use dispersion adhesives on that size tile....

I would give the border a couple of coats of lithofin stainstop or similar...this will be better than trying to seal them once installed.

Aqua panel would be ideal for the shower area.....

And BAL and other makes manufactures make anti mould grouts.........

I would deffo dot & dab the walls with plaster board......much easier to tile onto than block work...

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Default Re: Advice on tiling with 60cm x 30cm wall tiles

Even although you are using Aquapanel the shower area should still be tanked out. All the plasterboard should be primed with an acrylic primer as a bagged adhesive should be used for this size of tile. You will have to use a trowel depth to ensure you are getting sufficient coverage and that will also depend on how flat the substrate ends up. Something like Bal single part flexible or equivalent would be fine for adhesive. Grout, something like microflex. Personally i would seal the border prior to installing especially if it is mosaic like. Lithofin stain stop or similar.
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If these are in fact the tiles I'm thinking of.....................Thin white glaze with a creamy coloured biscuit? Use caution if fixing them into areas that receive water splash these tiles have been known to discolour after they fill up with moisture. Made in China Me thinks.
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Default Re: Advice on tiling with 60cm x 30cm wall tiles

Thanks for all your comments. I didn't realise I still needed to tank the shower walls, better buy a tanking kit - is the Dunlop Waterproof Tanking kit suitable?

Dave>> great comments/advice, just one query: is 'dot and dab' suitable? I read somewhere plaster can only hold a certain amount of weight (approx 20kg I think) , so wouldn't I be overloading the existing plaster by adding the weight of the plasterboard, adhesive and tiles. I may be talking non-sense, but just want to make sure. The advice about lecithin on the border prior to fiixing will certainly be a great help.

DSTiling>> great comments/advice. Again the border prep prior to fixing is invaluable.

Mick the Tiler>> Don't know where they originate from. But they are not a white glazed tile, they are a marble effect ceramic, with a high gloss glaze - the tile store assured me they were suitable for installation in a shower, so they had better be OK.

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Those tiles will be fine
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Phew that's a relief!!
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Default Re: Advice on tiling with 60cm x 30cm wall tiles

[quote=Lianne;79360]Thanks for all your comments. I didn't realise I still needed to tank the shower walls, better buy a tanking kit - is the[B] Dunlop Waterproof Tanking kit[/B] suitable?

Dave>> great comments/advice, just one query: is 'dot and dab' suitable? I read somewhere plaster can only hold a certain amount of weight (approx 20kg I think) , so wouldn't I be overloading the existing plaster by adding the weight of the plasterboard, adhesive and tiles. I may be talking non-sense, but just want to make sure. The advice about lecithin on the border prior to fiixing will certainly be a great help.

DSTiling>> great comments/advice. Again the border prep prior to fixing is invaluable.

Mick the Tiler>> Don't know where they originate from. But they are not a white glazed tile, they are a marble effect ceramic, with a high gloss glaze - the tile store assured me they were suitable for installation in a shower, so they had better be OK.

Thanks again for all your help.

Lianne[/quote]

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Hi Gaz, that's brilliant, thanks.
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Hi lianne. i meant if you are knocking the walls back to block work then dot & dab plasterboard..........If you dot & dab onto existing walls then once dry screw and plug through the dabbed area's for extra strength.........

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Default Re: Advice on tiling with 60cm x 30cm wall tiles

I don't see why she has to tank Aquapanel. That's overkill IMO.
If she is going to tank, why not just use 12.5mm plasterboard or, even better, greenboard for the entire room?

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