HELP Granite Tiles falling off the wall

[ianhutchinson]

Hi

Can anyone please help, I am using 60x30 black granite tiles to tile the walls in my bathroom. I lent against the wall today and one tile fell off, I pulled on a number of the other tiles and they just pulled off with ease. I am using Norcross adhesive recommended by the tile supplier and tiling onto a painted wall that has been painted with emulsion. The paint was not flaking and could not be scraped off. The tiles that have pulled off so far have pulled the paint off also.

Any advice would be much appreciated

Regards

Ian

 

[gcol]

First off, the fact that the emulsion has pulled from the wall reinforces the advice not to tile onto emulsion.
Secondly, is the adhesive pre-mixed? If it is, you should be using powdered and not pre-mixed.

 

[ianhutchinson]

Hi

Using powdered adhesive not ready mix, what do you recommend for the emmulsioned walls, scoring???, the paint will not scrape off.

Thanks in advance

Ian

 

[jefoss]

Hi

Using powdered adhesive not ready mix, what do you recommend for the emmulsioned walls, scoring???, the paint will not scrape off.

Thanks in advance

Ian

steam it off, paint stripper.

your choice

 

[ianhutchinson]

Should I then apply anything to the walls after steaming the paint

 

[jefoss]

Should I then apply anything to the walls after steaming the paint

if they were flat and good first time, no, just get rid of the paint then its all gravy dude.

 

[gcol]

..... then its all gravy dude.

As suggested, a steamer should soften it so you can scrape it off with one of these.

 

[jefoss]

also get one of these to help, while you relax