I wonder if someone could give me any ideas / help??
We have completely gutted our bathroom at the moment, and we're trying to retile the walls, we have tiled two walls without a problem, one is an interior wall and one an exterior wall. They were also the two walls which aren't going to be near any water.
The other two walls are going to have a shower bath onto them. The external wall was very bumpy after removing the existing tiles, and as neither of us are very good at plastering, we decided to batten the walls with marine ply (waterproof board) and we have that on the two walls, and its straight in all directions (checked with the spirit level). We coated the boards with a waterproof protector (Thompsons), as an added layer before the tiles.
But we are struggling with the tiling. We tiled the boarded walls last weekend, we put up a batten and tiled three tiles above it, and it was fine, on the following day, we got up and all the tiles had "popped" or were loose, so we had to remove them all, we removed all the adhesive and then left the walls to breathe for a week, in case the waterproof coating we put on hadn't dried!
We tiled again yesterday, again three tiles above the batten. The tiles on the board on the internal wall, seem to be OK and are fairly stable this morning, but on the other wall (external), they've popped again and were wobbly to the touch. We've had to remove them all before coming to work this morning, but we're now running out of ideas of how to get the tiles to fix to the wall and I wondered if anyone could help?
I'm sorry this is so long, but I was trying to think about everything we've done. We're using waterproof adhesive and grout.
Thank you in advance
Donna
We have completely gutted our bathroom at the moment, and we're trying to retile the walls, we have tiled two walls without a problem, one is an interior wall and one an exterior wall. They were also the two walls which aren't going to be near any water.
The other two walls are going to have a shower bath onto them. The external wall was very bumpy after removing the existing tiles, and as neither of us are very good at plastering, we decided to batten the walls with marine ply (waterproof board) and we have that on the two walls, and its straight in all directions (checked with the spirit level). We coated the boards with a waterproof protector (Thompsons), as an added layer before the tiles.
But we are struggling with the tiling. We tiled the boarded walls last weekend, we put up a batten and tiled three tiles above it, and it was fine, on the following day, we got up and all the tiles had "popped" or were loose, so we had to remove them all, we removed all the adhesive and then left the walls to breathe for a week, in case the waterproof coating we put on hadn't dried!
We tiled again yesterday, again three tiles above the batten. The tiles on the board on the internal wall, seem to be OK and are fairly stable this morning, but on the other wall (external), they've popped again and were wobbly to the touch. We've had to remove them all before coming to work this morning, but we're now running out of ideas of how to get the tiles to fix to the wall and I wondered if anyone could help?
I'm sorry this is so long, but I was trying to think about everything we've done. We're using waterproof adhesive and grout.
Thank you in advance
Donna