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    Damaged and plasterboard with some movement. Can it be tiled?

    Help please from any tilers. The plumbers made a mistake and had to rerun pipes after plastering. They’ve now patched the walls up of the shower room like this. Some of the pieces have movement on the wall. The filer is due tomorrow to tile the shower room with 60cm x 60cm porecelain tiles. The...
  2. elliott20

    Another Plasterboard Tile Weight Dilemma

    Hi, long time lurker, first time poster. Over the years I've used the good advice that I've read on this forum but with my current project I am a bit stumped. I am renovating an ensuite, it's been a mission but everything was starting to go nicely, tray installed, walls Mapei tanked - then the...
  3. R

    Advice for this area please, picture attached

    Hi, first time I’m posting 👋🏽 I’m after some advice please. Is this area going to need plastering before tiling or will tile backerboards be ok to use? Not looking for a quick fix as I want to do it properly but I know plastering will delay the tiling. Thanks ☺️
  5. M

    Tiling onto plasterboard options

    Hi all - I have some small format ceramic tiles (10x10x1cm) to use as a splash back around the kitchen worktop (tiling up about 0.3m with some Schluter trim along the exposed edges). The wall is skimmed and painted plasterboard (in very good condition). My plans was to sand back the paint and...
  6. A

    My 1st Job Replace damagedGypsum plasterboard with aquapanel in shower enclosure?

    Hello, this is my first post on here, probably one of many I am sure! I am looking for some advice on an issue we are facing with our shower enclosures tiling in a circa 1890s mid terrace house. We recently moved into a house that had recently been refurbished, and fitted with freestanding...
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    • aquapanel bathroom former gypsum plasterboard replace shower shower tray wetroom
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    • Forum: Tanking and Wetrooms
  7. N

    MR Plasterboard in shower

    I am in the process of building a couple of stud walls to create a shower cubicle. Built from 4"x2" studs they will be covered in backing board and tanked/waterproofed before tiling. The third wall in the cubicle already exists and is constructed of MR plasterboard on 6" studs and then...
  9. K

    Tanking systems for skimmed plasterboard

    Hi guys. New to the forum here. So basically I have just had my bathroom plasterboarded using dot and dab method and it's now been skimmed. I will be getting a shower enclosure being installed so It needs to be tanked. I have just realised I could have used a hardie backer board. My questions...
  10. S

    Managing Transition from Cement Board to Plasterboard in bathroom

    Hi all, Have been here in the past for a previous job some years back, but back again to get some great advice on my next job. I'm renovating my bathroom. Existing wet areas around shower and bath appear to just be plasterboard (!!) so I am looking to cut out the existing plasterboard for the...
  11. R

    Waterproofing bathroom plasterboard wall

    Bit of a long one and sorry if this questions been answered before. DIYer here. Planning on tiling the upper half of a bathroom wall over a bath to install an overhead shower. It’s a 5ish year old new build and currently has a bath installed and is tiled to about half way up the wall, above the...
  13. C

    Tanking shower area on new plasterboard and skim

    Hi, trying to find my way around this question. We had a new bathroom built, it was plasterboarded and skimmed in September. We're now ready to install the bathroom suite and tile. I understand that I should drank the area around the shower/bath before tiling. Can I apply the liquid waterproof...
  14. B

    Filling depression in plasterboard

    Hi all, I am about to tile a walk-in shower with 30x60 wall tiles that resemble coffered concrete planks. I’ve put a straight edge against the plasterboard wall (tanked) and can see that over the 2m length it bows in by about 10mm in the middle and then back out. Will I need to rough skim...
  15. B

    A walk-in shower tiling on plasterboard

    Hi all, I am about to tile a walk-in shower with 30x60 wall tiles that resemble coffered concrete planks. I’ve put a straight edge against the plasterboard wall (tanked) and can see that over the 2m length it bows in by about 10mm in the middle and then back out. Will I need to rough skim...
  17. R

    tile backer on top of dot and dabbed plasterboard ?

    Hi all. I'm looking for advice regarding the tile becker fitted on the plasterboard. It's about load capacity. How to increase the one on the plasterboard? Is it feasible without removing the plasterboard?? At the beginning of the job the customer wanted to go for 100x300 tiles so we've...
  18. S

    Re-tiling over old adhesive on both old plasterboard and masonary

    Hi all, I'm part re-tiling/plastering a bathroom, which as the pictures show, has masonary to one wall above the old bath (pic 3), waterproof-board on the back wall where the loo and shower were (pic 1 & 2), and plasterboard on the remianing wall (pic 4). I plan to re-tile where the original...
  19. C

    Removing tiles and plasterboard

    What's the best option for replacing g the plasterboard?
  21. D

    Plasterboard tape required?

    Hi all. I'm doing up a bathroom as a DIY project. Going to tile all the walls, including shower enclosure all the way up to ceiling. Is it necessary to tape all of the plasterboard joints prior to tiling? Was looking at the tape itself from Mapei and comes up around £5 per metre which seems...
  22. M

    Bal bond apd, plasterboard adhesive

    Hi all I apreciate its not a tiling topic so thought i would stick it here. I have nearly a full bottle of bal apd primer left over from doing my bathroom. I have got to bond a sheet of plasterboard to a brick wall using plasterboard adhesive. I have cleaned the brickwork as best as i can...
  23. G

    Sealing Moisture resistant plasterboard

    Sealing Moisture resistant plasterboard Hi I am new here, I have been reading through many of the threads here and see that there a lots of knowledgeable people here and hopefully I can get some answers to a problem I find myself in. I am a retired builder and recently have refurbished a...
  25. S

    Tile backer on to plasterboard

    The walls behind my old shower cubicle revealed a fair amount of water damage after i removed the wall tiles and the damaged wall. It turns out that the wall is three boards sandwiched together with screws and some sort of foam adhesive I want to overboard the remaining good boards wall with a...
  26. R

    Can I Replace Plasterboard with Tile backer board (Build regs compliance)?

    We have a dormer constructed, passed by building control, but they have obviously just plasterboarded everywhere, can I remove this from the ensuite walls (external ie dorma walls which are timber stud construction filled and covered with kingspan) and replace with foam tile backer boards of...
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