After a very long two days i ended sunday night with some pizza popcorn and some austin east ciders.
Stud wall on tile floor.
Some showers feature floor to ceiling tile walls.
Traditionally tile shower walls should go up to a minimum of 6 feet high from the base.
The best stud finder for tile walls neodymium n52 magnetic pocket stud finder.
This well designed stud finder features a simple hand held design that will comfortably fit into your storage space.
I do this all the time for partition walls.
Drill and screw at the grout joints for easy repair later.
I intend to fully tile my bathroom but one of the walls is a stud partition wall.
Dielectric constant stud finders do a poor job of locating studs behind tile as they are prone to returning a host of false positives.
And just like that i had this beauty.
Frame walls exterior stud walls with brick veneer 48 windows glass frame sash.
Is it ok to tile a stud partition wall or is it likely to fall down.
In this case the tile would go 8 10 feet high.
This is the type of stud finder that you slide across a wall until a red light signals that there is a solid mass such as a wooden stud behind the covering surface.
The tiles i intend to use are actually floor tiles.
A high end magnetic stud finder the neodymium n52 combines the accuracy of some of the leading electronic models with the simplicity of magnetic options.
It isn t uncommon to go a little higher potentially up to 6 feet 6 inches.
8 4 brick 38 8 brick 80 12 brick 120 17 brick 160 4 brick 8 tile backing 75 9 brick 4 tile backing 100 4 concrete block 30 4 cinder concrete block 20 8 wall tile 35 12 wall tile 45 3 clay tile 18 4 clay tile 19.
All i know about the wall is that it isn t a brick wall.
Cement board commonly sold under trade names such as durock hardiebacker and wonderboard is now the standard underlayment used for ceramic porcelain or stone tile laid with thinset mortar adhesive cement board is used for most floor tile and has all but replaced plywood and drywall backer materials for wall tile applications in wet areas like showers and tub surrounds.
I ll be hanging heavy duty shelves over subway tile on them so i like knowing there s a little more stability than normal.
Way easier than cutting in tile and way.
It would be sort of nice if that continued on into the laundry closet.