Wet shimming backerboard

[Flintstone]

not something i recall being talked about before on here? Does anyone wet shim studs etc when boarding a wall if there’s unevenness, a stud set back from the rest etc?

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Not a phrase I’ve heard before.

 

[Flintstone]

If you are boarding onto studs with backerboard and say a stud is bent 7mm out of plumb on one corner you apply a bed of adhesive on the stud where needed and put the board up get it level then screw up fully once the adhesive has set.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Understood your question but not the term.
I’d pack out an overboarded wall with adhesive where necessary and mechanically fix through to the substrate, but if it’s just a stud frame wall and no boards on, then I’d fix packers on the studs to level them through.

 

[Albert]

If you are boarding onto studs with backerboard and say a stud is bent 7mm out of plumb on one corner you apply a bed of adhesive on the stud where needed and put the board up get it level then screw up fully once the adhesive has set.

With the studs being raw timber that is still moving I think
no matter what kind of adhesive is used eventually it will fail
and leave a void, might be better to use packers

 

[Qwerty]

I do it with packers also if required

 

[Blunt Tool]

The one I’m doing just now, the original framing was so out and twisted that it was quicker to take it all apart and rebuild it so that packers weren’t needed. Sometimes better to take a step back to save time later.

 

[macten]

A plasterer watched me using packers and adding bits of timber to crap studs once. He told me his method is to just screw boards on to the crap timber and then dot and dab 9 1/2mm board on to that to get it bang on. Not something I've done before but it made sense, it's not going anywhere and can imagine it would be super fast.
Thoughts?

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Unfortunately it’s where we are at in the construction industry for a long time now.
Each trade has issues with the one before and lots have the it will do attitude. You have to throw it back to those in charge of standards or get on and overcome.
How often do you here - a good tiler would get over that - so check first, price it right, and if you want it do it.

 

[One Day]

Packers for me. Lots of packers.

 

[One Day]

A plasterer watched me using packers and adding bits of timber to crap studs once. He told me his method is to just screw boards on to the crap timber and then dot and dab 9 1/2mm board on to that to get it bang on. Not something I've done before but it made sense, it's not going anywhere and can imagine it would be super fast.
Thoughts?

Easy and fast for a skimmed wall. Weak for a tiled wall though.

 

[Dumbo]

Unfortunately it’s where we are at in the construction industry for a long time now.
Each trade has issues with the one before and lots have the it will do attitude. You have to throw it back to those in charge of standards or get on and overcome.
How often do you here - a good tiler would get over that - so check first, price it right, and if you want it do it.

It's funny how a good tiler can get over things whereas if the tradesman in front of us was good we wouldn't have to get over their poor workmanship

 

[Flintstone]

This method of wet shimming is approved by schluter - in the US, so it can’t be that bad ?
I have done it myself on smaller areas like boxing in, not on full wall areas.

 

[macten]

When using packers do you guys screw them to the studs or stick them?

 

[Qwerty]

When using packers do you guys screw them to the studs or stick them?

I screw