Heavy Wall Tiles On Plasterboard

One of the questions i get asked regularly is how to fix heavy items such as a tv to plasterboard or drywall.

Heavy wall tiles on plasterboard.

At the end of the day it s not a solid wall of bricks. Wall support for heavy tiles. Fixing heavy tiles to bare plaster bathroom wall. Power showers heavy duty showers the plasterboard should be tanked using norcros wet seal tanking membrane prior to.

Unfortunately there are no plasterboard fixings. Place an uncut tile and draw a line along the top of the tile. Hi i have just started re tiling my bathroom with some heavy ish ceramic tiles. It s pretty obvious that you would like to fix cabinets to your walls but you simply cannot fix it straight to the plasterboard.

If you love my content and would like to send me a couple. We should all welcome with great relief a fact that there are multiple solutions available. They have very high weight limits and are waterproof so don t need tanking. If the tiles are heavy you d be better of with boards such marmox wedi pcs etc.

The room size is 1 4m wide x 3 2 m long x 2 4m high. In today s video i run through the best options for hanging a heavy picture on a plasterboard wall. I m in the process of installing a shower room in my house. Un skimmed plasterboard has a tile adhesive weight limit of 32kg per square metre.

This is equivalent to ceramic tiles with a maximum thickness of 8mm plus tile adhesive or natural stone tiles with a maximum thickness of 7mm plus tile adhesive. The problem was that the. Fixing heavy cabinet to plasterboard wall. It was tiled on before and despite being plasterboard it is very stable.

In areas which will be subject to wetting i e. I started at the top over the bath and to begin. At the lowest point of the wall to which tiles are being fixed such as the skirting board work surface etc. Fixing heavy tiles to bare plaster bathroom wall.

Most tanking kits also have a circa 30kg limit.