bare plaster board

[White Room]

Go for 6mm hardie backer glued and screwed on the boards....

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Hi & welcome, stick up m/r plasterboard & tank it with a Mapei or Bal waterproofing kit.

Strip off the old paint on the other walls also.

You will get plenty of advice on here mate.

Andrew, as Robson says, get rid of as much paint off the walls as you can. A steam wallpaper stripper might work if the paint is amenable. Personally I've used a sander to sand off the layers of paint. Once you get as much paint off as you can, get a suitable primer to prime the areas for tiling.

 

[Ian]

the floor is just normal floor boards and its fine no deflections to worry about. as for using 15mm ply then 10mm tiles and then 10mm of adhesive 35mm step into the bath I dont think they will go for that. what about the walls with paint on them can I score them and tile them ?

The adhesive will compress down to 3/4mm if you use a 10mm notched trowel. If the floor is deflection free, do as Whitebeam has suggested, then your total floor height will be around 22mm.

 

[widler]

good, a fellow plasterer to fight my battles with these blinkin tilers(only joking lads and lasses)

all advice good above,apart from the marine ply on walls,imo its no good.
ive have learnt a lot coming on here,although ive been tiling a fair few years as well as plastering,and these men and women make your standard of work go that one notch higher to keep up with there's.

right,crawling over with,off to tile a bathroom in ikkle brick tiles

 

[Mike]

as above, if the original floor boards are sound (as you say) then over board with 6mm cement board laid on spf adhesive and screwed every 150mm

 

[andrew pedley]

thanks guys, how much are these cement boards then ?

 

[Mike]

they probably vary but i pay abouit a tenner for a 1200 x 800 hardi in my local builder centre.