Hi,
I'm planning to tile my bathroom in 40cm travertine tiles with Kerdi backer board. However, the walls aren't ready to be boarded just yet for a few reasons... First, I've reduced the size of a boxed in section so there are now some bits of bare brick next to rendered walls:
(second picture shows the wood from the old boxing that I'll be pulling off the wall.)
The Kerdi people suggested I can dot and dab onto the render and onto the brick, and I should put fixings into the brick on top of that, so that's my plan. Is it OK just to have thicker dabs to compensate for the missing render? Or can I try to compensate with thicker Kerdi if the difference is more extreme?
Number two: while removing a bit of old partition wall a big chunk of render cracked and fell off on a convex corner near a window:
I'm not sure how to board over this? It seems a waste to get it rendered up just to get covered. I'm hesitant to knock all the render off that wall in case that just makes things worse.
Number three: there's a bit of wall that's not properly rendered below about 1.2m from the floor; it's adjacent to a doorframe that's been blocked up (with plasterboard in a wooden frame). The wall is actually sloped, the gap is about 4cm at the top and below 1cm near the floor:
How can I make it all flat enough to get a good, flat backer board to tile onto?
I'm planning to tile my bathroom in 40cm travertine tiles with Kerdi backer board. However, the walls aren't ready to be boarded just yet for a few reasons... First, I've reduced the size of a boxed in section so there are now some bits of bare brick next to rendered walls:
(second picture shows the wood from the old boxing that I'll be pulling off the wall.)The Kerdi people suggested I can dot and dab onto the render and onto the brick, and I should put fixings into the brick on top of that, so that's my plan. Is it OK just to have thicker dabs to compensate for the missing render? Or can I try to compensate with thicker Kerdi if the difference is more extreme?
Number two: while removing a bit of old partition wall a big chunk of render cracked and fell off on a convex corner near a window:
I'm not sure how to board over this? It seems a waste to get it rendered up just to get covered. I'm hesitant to knock all the render off that wall in case that just makes things worse.
Number three: there's a bit of wall that's not properly rendered below about 1.2m from the floor; it's adjacent to a doorframe that's been blocked up (with plasterboard in a wooden frame). The wall is actually sloped, the gap is about 4cm at the top and below 1cm near the floor:
How can I make it all flat enough to get a good, flat backer board to tile onto?
