Porcelain tiles on skimmed honeycomb plasterboard wall

[Mark R]

Hi All,

I am a complete novice at tiling and I'm about to renovate our small bathroom.

2 walls are external and 2 are skimmed honeycomb plasterboard. I had intended removing the plasterboard from the bathroom side and replace with no 12mm No More Ply backer boards to ensure the weight of the tiles (600 x 300 porcelain at 3.4kg each) would be supported but on creating a small hole in the plasterboard found that these are honeycomb walls. I don't think the installation of backer boards on these plasterboard walls is therefore an option as I don't want to disturb the other side of the wall.

I've removed the previous small ceramic tiles from the wall and the skim quality seems to be ok.

Would I be ok to tile directly onto this? I had already bought Eco Prim Grip Plus primer and Keraflex Maxi S1 adhesive as advised by the tile supplier.

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Mark

 

[Dave]

Hi All,

I am a complete novice at tiling and I'm about to renovate our small bathroom.

2 walls are external and 2 are skimmed honeycomb plasterboard. I had intended removing the plasterboard from the bathroom side and replace with no 12mm No More Ply backer boards to ensure the weight of the tiles (600 x 300 porcelain at 3.4kg each) would be supported but on creating a small hole in the plasterboard found that these are honeycomb walls. I don't think the installation of backer boards on these plasterboard walls is therefore an option as I don't want to disturb the other side of the wall.

I've removed the previous small ceramic tiles from the wall and the skim quality seems to be ok.

Would I be ok to tile directly onto this? I had already bought Eco Prim Grip Plus primer and Keraflex Maxi S1 adhesive as advised by the tile supplier.

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Mark

There are 5.5 tiles to the mtr. Even with a small amount for adhesive etc. it will be fine.

 

[Mark R]

There are 5.5 tiles to the mtr. Even with a small amount for adhesive etc. it will be fine.

Thanks for confirming Dave 👍