Tiling shower.

[lefty]

Hello ALL.

I am replacing my shower tray, however as the width of the space is over 900mm I want to fit a new piece of plasterboard on top of the existing in order to make the shower tray fit more snugly. Is this practical? and can I then tile directly onto plasterboard?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Jasonb]

You would be better to use a waterresistant board such as "Aquapanel" as this is not affected by any water that may get behind the tiles you can get it from Wickes.

Jason

 

[swelec]

my nearest Wickes is 20 miles away

there is a focus nearby, but they do not stock Aquapanel

I cannot find it on the B & Q website

I don't want to resort to plasterboard & pva seal prior to tiling , so can anyone tell me of any other stockists

What is the ( rough ) price per board ?

Thanks

 

[stevenrafferty]

just refitted our bathroom and used aquapanel for around the freestanding shower.

The big B&Q's do sell it, comes in 900x1200 boards at 12mm thick. Very heavy stuff.

It works out a lot more expensive than palsterboard, I paid about £11 per sheet but yoyu will never have problems with water being soaked up behind your tiles - definite piece of mind