Hi,

For some reason the previous owners of our place decided that it would
be a good idea to tile the window sills after sawing off the front edge
(e.g. cut them back so that they are flush with the wall - well roughly
flush, they seem to have used a rabid gopher as their cutting tool of
choice).

Anyway, at first I hated it and wanted to put back the wood but I have
come to like the idea of tiled window sills but not the horrible brown
tiles they have used. I have a bit of spare time today so I am going to
lay some nice tiles. I have tiled onto walls before and know the basic
principals but I was wondering if there are any special considerations
regarding tiling on to wood. The last tiles were laid with tiling grout
and it adhered moderately well to the wood. Would mixing a little PVA
with the bedding grout (if you see what I mean) help stick them even better?

Cheers.

Graham

In article ,
doozer wrote:
Anyway, at first I hated it and wanted to put back the wood but I have
come to like the idea of tiled window sills but not the horrible brown
tiles they have used. I have a bit of spare time today so I am going to
lay some nice tiles. I have tiled onto walls before and know the basic
principals but I was wondering if there are any special considerations
regarding tiling on to wood. The last tiles were laid with tiling grout
and it adhered moderately well to the wood. Would mixing a little PVA
with the bedding grout (if you see what I mean) help stick them even
better?

It rather depends on whether the wood is going to 'move' at all.

I've got blockboard worktops which are tiled, and they've been fine. On
the advice of the supplier I gave the wood a couple of coats of diluted
PVA first, them used a mortar based adhesive about 1/4" thick.

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In article ,
doozer wrote:
Anyway, at first I hated it and wanted to put back the wood but I have
come to like the idea of tiled window sills but not the horrible brown
tiles they have used. I have a bit of spare time today so I am going to
lay some nice tiles. I have tiled onto walls before and know the basic
principals but I was wondering if there are any special considerations
regarding tiling on to wood. The last tiles were laid with tiling grout
and it adhered moderately well to the wood. Would mixing a little PVA
with the bedding grout (if you see what I mean) help stick them even
better?

It rather depends on whether the wood is going to 'move' at all.

I've got blockboard worktops which are tiled, and they've been fine. On
the advice of the supplier I gave the wood a couple of coats of diluted
PVA first, them used a mortar based adhesive about 1/4" thick.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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You can get tile adhesive designed to tile onto wood which is tolerant of
substrate movement.
It aint cheap though. I've just done a bathroom floor and the adhesive &
grout cost more than the tiles.
Bob

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:36:28 GMT, "Bob Minchin"
wrote:

You can get tile adhesive designed to tile onto wood which is tolerant of
substrate movement.
It aint cheap though. I've just done a bathroom floor and the adhesive &
grout cost more than the tiles.

I (on others' recommendation) have used cork tile adhesive to fix
ceramic tiles onto plywood in a narrow boat. This is on a "more than
vertical" surface, and prone to vibration, flexing etc. They've stayed
there for years.
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Nick Atty wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:36:28 GMT, "Bob Minchin"
wrote:


You can get tile adhesive designed to tile onto wood which is tolerant of
substrate movement.
It aint cheap though. I've just done a bathroom floor and the adhesive &
grout cost more than the tiles.


I (on others' recommendation) have used cork tile adhesive to fix
ceramic tiles onto plywood in a narrow boat. This is on a "more than
vertical" surface, and prone to vibration, flexing etc. They've stayed
there for years.

Ive used car body filler to fix tiles that came off wood surfaces.

But mostly with decent adhesive, they don't come off.

Done lots of tiling over wood.

Flexible floor tile adhesive in a thickish bed works fine.