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Excuse me if any of this seems a bit over cautious, but having spent ages learning how to tile and then doing a job I'm pleased with I'm ultra nervous about cracking any tiles.
It's round a bath with an overbath shower. Sand and cement rendered wall, then BAL rapdiset flexible as adhesive for Homelux tanking matting, Single Part Rapidset as the actual adhesive for Topps 'bumpy white' 20x20 ceramics, they're about 7mm thick. Can't say for certain, but there should be very few voids, if any, in that adhesive. 6mm trowel on one wall, 10mm trowel on the other.
I've got a shower curtain rail and shower riser rail to put up. Both stainless steel throughout. The curtain rails here, with ss fixings.
My idea was this - use a 10mm ceramic bit to go through the tiles, then 8mm masonry bit into the wall. Why? So that the outwards expanding force of the screw is going into the brick, rather than trying to split the tile (esp if I'm near the edge of the tile). Then I thought - but that effectively means I'm trying to crush the tile, as it's a glorified wasther between the fitting and the wall. I was already thinking that there should be some sort of thin gasket type thing between th plates and the washer. Especially as they're stainless steel which has not give atall.
You're thoughts welcome.
It's round a bath with an overbath shower. Sand and cement rendered wall, then BAL rapdiset flexible as adhesive for Homelux tanking matting, Single Part Rapidset as the actual adhesive for Topps 'bumpy white' 20x20 ceramics, they're about 7mm thick. Can't say for certain, but there should be very few voids, if any, in that adhesive. 6mm trowel on one wall, 10mm trowel on the other.
I've got a shower curtain rail and shower riser rail to put up. Both stainless steel throughout. The curtain rails here, with ss fixings.
My idea was this - use a 10mm ceramic bit to go through the tiles, then 8mm masonry bit into the wall. Why? So that the outwards expanding force of the screw is going into the brick, rather than trying to split the tile (esp if I'm near the edge of the tile). Then I thought - but that effectively means I'm trying to crush the tile, as it's a glorified wasther between the fitting and the wall. I was already thinking that there should be some sort of thin gasket type thing between th plates and the washer. Especially as they're stainless steel which has not give atall.
You're thoughts welcome.