Can anybody help, I have purchased travertine tiles for my shower enclosure. I was advised to mount backer board to the wall before I tile, the problem is that the instructions say that the backer board can only be fixed to wooden studs in the wall but I have none only cardboard. Is it possible to either fix battens to the wall or remove the plaster board and cardboard oneside and construct a wooden frame glued to the other sides plaster board. I'm unsure how to tackle this.
Fixing backer board to paramount wall
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This has been covered somewhere before but im not sure if its in this section or the plastering one.
You have a few choices, you could do as youve suggested, its alot of mincing about to make sure you dont damage the other plasterboard on the wall though but if you have time on your side then go for it. You could completly remove and replace the wall with a proper stud wall or you could build a wall infront of the existing wall. What ever you do make sure you have a good long level and a string line and make the wall really true, it will make tiling so much quicker and easier!
You have a few choices, you could do as youve suggested, its alot of mincing about to make sure you dont damage the other plasterboard on the wall though but if you have time on your side then go for it. You could completly remove and replace the wall with a proper stud wall or you could build a wall infront of the existing wall. What ever you do make sure you have a good long level and a string line and make the wall really true, it will make tiling so much quicker and easier!
If the purpose of the backer boards is to give a waterproof tile base, have you considerer tanking instead? I’ve no knowledge/experience with the load charring capacity of Paramount studding but if the wall is plastered, this will be the limiting factor as it has a maximum weight limit of 20 kg/sqm (including adhesive & grout); if your tiles weigh in at more than 18 kg/sqm it won’t be an option.
Marmox backer boards can either be mechanically fixed or using tile adhesive but again, if the walls are plastered, this will be the limiting factor as far as max tile weight goes, as above.
Marmox backer boards can either be mechanically fixed or using tile adhesive but again, if the walls are plastered, this will be the limiting factor as far as max tile weight goes, as above.
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