Tiling bathroom wall with 10mm thick ceramic tiles - Tile Advice

[Robchidell123]

Hi there, I’m tiling my bathroom with 600x300 10mm thick ceramic tiles on walls. There are some tiles to remove but most walls are papered, they are solid walls with a firm sticking wallpaper, can’t really plasterboard one wall as it would bring it out interfering with adjacent door, so was hoping to scrape down paper, prime and tile, who thinks this is fine, who doesn’t? Cheers.

 

[Wayne Brown]

A plastered wall won't take the weight of the tile and adhiesve , scrape down prime stick tile backer boards to the wall with a quality rapid flexible adhesive and fix at 300mm centres with screws and washers. If it's in a wet area it will need the joints and fixings waterproofing kop

 

[Boggs]

If the walls are in good condition after the wallpaper has been removed, no blown skim and are reasonably flat, I wouldn’t worry too much about over boarding.
Tiles will be around 16kg sqm, it’s on the limit for skimmed plaster but I wouldn’t have an issue with tiling personally.

 

[Robchidell123]

Interesting isn't it, everyone has a different opinion and it seems I just have to find my own technique. I will assess the situation and take your advice, thanks a lot.

 

[On one]

I'm afraid you and you alone will have to assess this particular situation.......sometimes the amount of effort in removing the tiles will loosen the finish plaster from the undercoat plaster, rendering any comments (here) pointless.......so many variables.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

you may strike lucky and the walls were pva'ed and a dispersion adhesive used, in which case the tiles could come off without causing disruption to existing plaster, if so, thoroughly abrade the old skimmed plaster and prime with an acrylic primer ( or diluted sbr at 3 parts water to 1 part sbr), it will be pushing the weight limits but I reckon it should be ok. Just bear in mind that your new tiles may be thicker than the existing.