How to tile a bathroom
Before tiling your bathroom you have to take into consideration the substrate that you are tiling onto. Some tiles, especially natural tiles are very heavy and if they are fixed onto the incorrect substrate they can fall off.
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Technical specifications for the weight limit of Natural stone on certain substrates |
| SUBSTRATE | WEIGHT LIMIT | APPROXIMATE WEIGHT |
| A skim plastered solid wall or plasterboard with a skim coat | 20Kg per Sq/Metre | approximate weight of 10mm thick stone |
| Plasterboard without a plaster skim or sand cement render | 32kg per Sq/Metre | approximate weight of 15mm thick stone |
| Correctly braced Aquapanel | 50Kg per Sq/Metre | approximate weight of 20mm thick stone |
Aquapanel is commonly used in bathrooms instead of plasterboard as it is resistant to moisture, unlike plasterboard which turns to pulp when wet. You can read more about Aquapanel here- Aquapanel
