Plaster walls

[jstrats]

Hello good people, just priced a job for travertine on walls, existing walls were skimmed plaster and not straight either so i advised knocking it off and
re bonding, the builder has just told me the plasterers have re bonded but haven't taken the skim off, they just pva'd i believe.

Will the skim take the weight of the bonding and tile?

Tiles are 400x400

 

[Gazzer]

Very doubtful but how thick is the travertine.

 

[jstrats]

Haven't actually seen the tiles yet.

Just rang builder and he say's 10mm and 406x406

 

[Gazzer]

overweight IMO

 

[jstrats]

should i just walk away from it?

 

[Gazzer]

Just explain that the weight is over the limits as set out by British Gypsum.

 

[peteablard]

I wouldn't fix them either but check the weight of them to be sure

 

[jstrats]

Thanks Sir Ramic, i will do, have just found Whitebeam's post on tile weights.

http://www.tilersforums.com/tiling-forum/48551-tile-weights.html

 

[Gazzer]

I had to do the same last monday.

 

[jstrats]

Just rang Bal technical and they said solid wall would take 80kg per m, is this correct? I did explain about the skim but the lady just kept repeating how a wall would take 80kg.

 

[Gazzer]

Ask them what is this then
BAL Adhesives - Technical Support

 

[jstrats]

Just rang back, they don't seem to know their ar*e from their elbow, spoke to someone else who was trying to put me onto someone with more technical knowledge but they had left the building, will try again tomorrow.

 

[Gazzer]

Tiling Tips: Weight limits for walls

 

[nybor62]

Just rang Bal technical and they said solid wall would take 80kg per m, is this correct? I did explain about the skim but the lady just kept repeating how a wall would take 80kg.

she is talking rubbish

 

[White Room]

80kg m2, very bad information....

 

[jstrats]

I know, i expected more from Bal.

 

[Rookery]

These days when you ring BAL TAS more often than not you get to speak to some non-tech admin type woman who either gives you duff info, as in above, or more usually doesnt know so has to go and find a tech person to answer the question. Naturally this makes the call twice as long as it should have in the first place. Smacks of cutbacks if you ask me, it weren't like this in the old days.