How To Tile Over Uneven Walls

Don t use plaster or ordinary sand cement render or you will have to wait a minimum of 10 days before tiling longer the thicker it gets.

How to tile over uneven walls. Apply just enough of the adhesive to attach a few tiles at a time so that the adhesive stays moist and ready to receive the tiles. Back buttering is a trick used for tiles of uneven thickness like ungauged slate or handmade tiles extremely large tiles or for tiles being installed on an uneven surface. Mark the wall in the middle with a chalk line to create a guide for the tiles. Spread grout over the wall tiles with a grout float a rubber tool used for spreading grout.

The remaining pieces of the spacers will be hidden by grout. You can build out locally to a certain extent using cement powder tile adhesive or a quick set render but you should not exceed a depth of 12mm. Comb walls then back butter tiles accordingly if they are really bad holes etc you can build out wall in layers using rapidset adhesive which will set in 3hrs which will then allow you to use your tub stuff after priming make sure you smoothe the rapidset otherwise you are giving yourself more hassle. By uneven i think you mean that the walls are not flat.

With a notched trowel apply the adhesive at the bottom of the cinder block wall. The floor slanting is not that much of a problem even for a do it your selfer.