Bathroom Wall Tiling

[poolieweb]

Hi

First of all I am new to the forum so hello to everyone.


The Project:

Moving an upstairs bathroom to produce more bedroom space. This new bathroom replaces the badly thought out design when originally moving the toilet from outside (Very old Mid Mews House).
The plan is to divide a bedroom in to two using two non- supporting walls. The newly created room will have no windows and will be fitted with a saniflow unit.

This where I need the advice:

Tiling and walls:

As I am going to tile all the walls, I have 2 old solid plastered walls (with patches which will need skimming) and two new walls which I can choose the surface on which I can tile.

Can I tile directly onto plaster board?

What treatments should use on the old wall before tiling?

Should I use Concrete board and plywood backing?

 

[Jasonb]

In dry areas its fine to tile straight onto the bare plasterboard, if its a wet area (shower) then tank the plasterboard or better still use a tilebacker board (Aquapanel, wede,hardibacker, etc ) and tank that.

Whats on the old walls ? pain?, paper?

Have a look at Gcol's sticky for more info.

Jason

 

[gcol]

//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=88511
Try not to post the same question in two forums. You've just wasted about 2 mins of Jason's life.

 

[Moz]

2 mins of Jason's life

jase can lose it ..
he would be only chinwagging at that other forum ,lol