Heavy Wall Tiles On Plasterboard

Hi i have just started re tiling my bathroom with some heavy ish ceramic tiles.

Heavy wall tiles on plasterboard.

One of the questions i get asked regularly is how to fix heavy items such as a tv to plasterboard or drywall. Most tanking kits also have a circa 30kg limit. Unfortunately there are no plasterboard fixings. It s pretty obvious that you would like to fix cabinets to your walls but you simply cannot fix it straight to the plasterboard.

Hi i have just started re tiling my bathroom with some heavy ish ceramic tiles. The tiles i am hanging are ceramic 250mm x 330mm and 8mm thick so they are largish but not unusually so. The problem was that the. Place an uncut tile and draw a line along the top of the tile.

In today s video i run through the best options for hanging a heavy picture on a plasterboard wall. I m in the process of installing a shower room in my house. The room size is 1 4m wide x 3 2 m long x 2 4m high. Fixing heavy tiles to bare plaster bathroom wall.

In areas which will be subject to wetting i e. We should all welcome with great relief a fact that there are multiple solutions available. Wall support for heavy tiles. At the end of the day it s not a solid wall of bricks.

I started at the top over the bath and to begin. Most natural stone is at least 10mm thick and often up to 20mm thick the weight of tiling to a plasterboard background direct without plaster skim should not exceed 32kg m. If you love my content and would like to send me a couple. They have very high weight limits and are waterproof so don t need tanking.

Power showers heavy duty showers the plasterboard should be tanked using norcros wet seal tanking membrane prior to. Fixing heavy cabinet to plasterboard wall. Un skimmed plasterboard has a tile adhesive weight limit of 32kg per square metre. This is equivalent to ceramic tiles with a maximum thickness of 8mm plus tile adhesive or natural stone tiles with a maximum thickness of 7mm plus tile adhesive.

If the tiles are heavy you d be better of with boards such marmox wedi pcs etc.