Tiling onto stramit board walls

[paul99]

Hi, after a bit of advice please.


I have a bathroom to tile and the walls are made of stramit board (compacted straw between cardboard) with a plaster skim and currently tiled.


I plan to remove the current tiles, hopefully without too much damage to the plaster skim.


Can this then be treated in the same way as skimmed plasterboard?


I was planning on priming and tanking the shower area, then using a flexible single part adhesive.


Tiles weigh 12kg/M[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]²[/FONT] on their own so no option to tile over the current tiles.


Grateful for any advice. Thanks.

 

[White Room]

Hi and welcome....never seen stramit board skimmed before but it does have a paper surface on the straw, I would remove the tiles and see if the plaster finish comes away with the existing tiles...