tiling, bathroom

dori2o

Having the bathroom retiled, have taken a few tiles off and the plaster underneath is terrible.

Is it possible to chisel the plaster off and just pou up plasterboard and tile directly onto that, or will I have to skim coat it?

tododo

Should be as long as everything is level so you can tile over nicely
Dot and Dab the method is called i think

tanith

Not sure if plaster board is suitable for tiling around a bath as it would soak up any water that got through the grouting and cause problems...

Jem8472

tododo wrote: »

Should be as long as everything is level so you can tile over nicely
Dot and Dab the method is called i think

are you refering to putting tile adhesive on?

I just retiled our bathroom. When taking off the old tiles the ones stuck on properly with the notched spreader were well stuck but some were stuck with a bad of adhesive in each corner and fell off with almost no effort.

will-he-payitoff

Why take the old tiles off you can retile over the old tiles so long as the joints are not in the same place

dori2o

will-he-payitoff wrote: »

Why take the old tiles off you can retile over the old tiles so long as the joints are not in the same place

I was thinking of doing that, but I'm only tiling around the bath, then there is paper on the wall, so the difference in height between the tiles and the paper would not look right.

handyman.

if you need to remove all tiles and the plaster, then putting plasterboard up is fine, then around the bath put aquapanel up and tank it. This is the correct way of doing this job..........you'll have to go to a proper trade forum to get all the info, as i dont think this site allows me to paste links to other sites.....just google

handyman.

http://www.trustedtradesmen.com/forum/default.asp

the tile forum on this site is good.........lets see how long the link stays