Hi,
I have a wall in the bathroom looking worse for wear after removing old tiles - plaster came off too! Unfortunately I have horrible blockwork type walls (black lightweight brick 1930's house). This blockwork makes it very difficult (impossible) to remove all plaster back to brick as the blockwork comes off with the plaster. I want to batten out the walls to make it easier to renovate next time (rather than having the wall plastered with bonding only prior to tiling). The problem is if I batten out the wall I will lose too much space so what I want to do is chase the wall out around 15-20mm. The total wall thickness is approx 10CM including plaster both sides - I want to insert the battens into the chased channels so I do not lose too much space. Is this a bad idea? Would it weaken the wall too much? Channels would be 40cm apart vertically all the way up the wall.
Thanks
I have a wall in the bathroom looking worse for wear after removing old tiles - plaster came off too! Unfortunately I have horrible blockwork type walls (black lightweight brick 1930's house). This blockwork makes it very difficult (impossible) to remove all plaster back to brick as the blockwork comes off with the plaster. I want to batten out the walls to make it easier to renovate next time (rather than having the wall plastered with bonding only prior to tiling). The problem is if I batten out the wall I will lose too much space so what I want to do is chase the wall out around 15-20mm. The total wall thickness is approx 10CM including plaster both sides - I want to insert the battens into the chased channels so I do not lose too much space. Is this a bad idea? Would it weaken the wall too much? Channels would be 40cm apart vertically all the way up the wall.
Thanks