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Hi
Great forum with lots of good advice and know how. I am hoping to tap into this now with the question. I have an en-suite with my new loft conversion where the walls are plasterboarded with a skim on top. We had set our hearts on having either Limestone or Travertine tiles on the walls and floors and then I came across this forum where I learnt that a plasterboard wall with a skim can only take a weight of 20kg per square metre. Further reading on the forum seemed to say that the Limestone
or Travertine would be too heavy. Now here is my question, I have a sample of the actual Limestone tile which is 10mm thick and 10cm square.
I weighed the sample and it came out at 180 grams, now using my not too good maths I worked out that it would take 100 of these sample tiles to make one square metre. 100 of these tiles at 180 grams each works out at a total of 18kg which seems a lot less than I have read. Am I completely wrong with this.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreaciated and sorry about my first post being a bit long.
Thanks.
Great forum with lots of good advice and know how. I am hoping to tap into this now with the question. I have an en-suite with my new loft conversion where the walls are plasterboarded with a skim on top. We had set our hearts on having either Limestone or Travertine tiles on the walls and floors and then I came across this forum where I learnt that a plasterboard wall with a skim can only take a weight of 20kg per square metre. Further reading on the forum seemed to say that the Limestone
or Travertine would be too heavy. Now here is my question, I have a sample of the actual Limestone tile which is 10mm thick and 10cm square.
I weighed the sample and it came out at 180 grams, now using my not too good maths I worked out that it would take 100 of these sample tiles to make one square metre. 100 of these tiles at 180 grams each works out at a total of 18kg which seems a lot less than I have read. Am I completely wrong with this.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreaciated and sorry about my first post being a bit long.
Thanks.