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I'm shortly going to start tiling a worksurface with a sink in a utility room (ie not a kitchen - it contains a washing machine and will be used for storage and filling buckets, etc).
Here's where I am at present:
There will eventually be a good 2cm thick wood surround to face (conceal) all the front edges and provide extra support: parts of it are already loosely (and crookedly) in place on the right side and below.
The worksurfaces to be tiled are chipboard. It's the green "exterior" stuff, described here in France as "waterproof" but I rather doubt that it is genuinely waterproof. As a result I'm planning to paint the undersurfaces (in fact, I've just started) with a reasonably waterproof paint, particularly those surfaces round the washing machine. I'll also be painting all the non-tiled areas.
My question is whether I should or shouldn't paint the surface I'll be tiling onto. I've seen discussions about cleaning emulsion of walls that are to be tiled, but I wondered if with a horizontal surface getting it a bit more watertight was worth any loss of adhesion of the cement.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Here's where I am at present:
There will eventually be a good 2cm thick wood surround to face (conceal) all the front edges and provide extra support: parts of it are already loosely (and crookedly) in place on the right side and below.
The worksurfaces to be tiled are chipboard. It's the green "exterior" stuff, described here in France as "waterproof" but I rather doubt that it is genuinely waterproof. As a result I'm planning to paint the undersurfaces (in fact, I've just started) with a reasonably waterproof paint, particularly those surfaces round the washing machine. I'll also be painting all the non-tiled areas.
My question is whether I should or shouldn't paint the surface I'll be tiling onto. I've seen discussions about cleaning emulsion of walls that are to be tiled, but I wondered if with a horizontal surface getting it a bit more watertight was worth any loss of adhesion of the cement.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.