Cover both the brick and the tile with mortar before applying the tile to the wall.
How to render a brick wall for tiling.
Ensure that all loose debris is removed as well.
You can t skim onto brick blockwork.
Applying the render if you are rendering an existing brick or block wall work the render into the mortar joints to provide a relatively flat surface.
There are a couple of different techniques to applying render.
If you do go that route depending on how thick the plaster needs to be to bring the wall up to level you will be looking at anything from 2 5 weeks drying time bigtrav feb 29 2008 2 d438a1 member.
Tilt the hawk onto the trowel and then apply the render at a 45 angle or you can place the hawk s edge on the wall and brush up from there.
You have to use a backing plaster which will have to be skimmed as you cant tile onto backing plaster.
The first step is to remove any existing trim or moulding from the wall as you won t want to tile over them.