battens with no surface to nail to

[Mr Tiler]

I'll be tiling onto dat/dab plasterboard next week and will have a border right around the room. If its a stud wall or masonry, I nail the batten where border sits then tile off it and fill border later. Now I won't have any thing to nail to apart from the plasterboard so does anyone have any tips on what I can do so battens stay in place.

run a datum line around the room 2 course high then tile the 2 course around the room, then go up from there

 

[Mr Tiler]

whoops didn't read properly... id do exactly what ray t t would do. may seem long winded but once you have fixed the boarder to the hardy it works a treat

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I use off cuts of field tiles,cut to same depth as borders, dot them on with tubbed addy, tile above and remove later. This way you can make sure that field tiles above and below border are nice and flat with each other.

 

[Dash J]

I also do the course above the border with rapid set,much quicker

 

[AliGage]

Behind every dabbed plasterboard is a masonry wall!!!

 

[cone]

Behind every dabbed plasterboard is a masonry wall!!!

Some of it can be out 2 inches. More messing trying to get the batten true on the line I'd say.

 

[cone]

Takes the glue about 10 seconds to go off.
Latte? I'm not much of a coffee drinker.
I have 5 beads in the pack, 1800 1200 1000 800 600.
Seen me glueing my stabilas to the wall when needed.
View attachment 60609
These are glued to the wall, 2 x 1800s & a 900.
There's a couple of screws in it but they were just into the plasterboard as I couldn't get a fixing.

What type of glue is that ?

 

[Stef]

What type of glue is that ?

Not sure, just standard glue sticks you can get from ScrewFix/ Toolstation etc.
They will rip out a bit of plasterboard sometimes but don't worry about it as you just fill in with a bit of addy.

 

[cone]

Not sure, just standard glue sticks you can get from ScrewFix/ Toolstation etc.
They will rip out a bit of plasterboard sometimes but don't worry about it as you just fill in with a bit of addy.

Evostick time bond or similar?

 

[Stef]

Evostick time bond or similar?

I'm not sure, it's a while since I bought them.
Will check the book to see & let u know.

 

[AliGage]

Some of it can be out 2 inches. More messing trying to get the batten true on the line I'd say.

I don't see how