Hi All,

I'm planning on increasing the height of the tiling in my house's toliet area soon, and the wall is currently painted with thickish 70's style green paint. Should this paint be removed instead of tiling over it? I'm just a bit concerned that the paint is not going to provide a good surface to adhere to, as in places where the paint is chipped, you can peel small sections of it away from the wall. The walls are all solid brick (internal and external).

Any advice appreciated ... and I've had a bit of a search and couldn't find much on the topic.

Cheers,

Shane

We are planning to place a 6ft fish tank, which holds up to 900kg, on our soon to be tiled area. The tank stand is welded out of square tubing and has 6 legs approximately 20mm in width. So this is 150kg per leg. I am concerned about the tiles cracking and wondering what type of load distribution would prevent this. We were considering putting the tank on wheels as the 6 legs are already taking the load ok and the wheels will enable the tank to be moved (after it is mostly drained as I am aware of the force the water has against the glass). Would nylon castor cups under the wheels be enough to distribute the fully laden load? Or would we need to put down sheeting or rails or something else?

The 600x600 tiles will be on a concrete base which has a thicker piece of concrete directly under where the tank is to be (sorry not sure of the correct term).

thanks for any advice