What type of board for use in bathroom

pledgeX

We're going to redo our bathroom in a couple of months. We're getting someone in to do the tiling, but we’ll be ripping the old suite and tiles out ourselves. I’m 90% sure that whatever is behind the tiles is going to rotten/damaged, so I’m going to assume that we’ll need to rip it all out and put up new boards.

Any suggestions on what board should be used? It will be tiled floor to ceiling (likely porcelain if it makes a difference). We have an over bath shower, so were planning to use aqua board around that. Do we need to use the same stuff around the rest of the bathroom or could we get away with using cheaper vapour/moisture panels? What about the type of board for the ceiling?

These are the panels I've been looking at so far:
Vapour
Moisture
Aqua

Thanks for any help.

jk0

I use Wickes Aquapanel around bath/shower, and behind basin/toilet, and ordinary plasterboard elsewhere.


Seems to have worked okay the 20 years I've been doing that.

john.h

Aqua panel is water resistant not water proof. Go for Jacko board or similar in shower area.

pledgeX

john.h wrote: »

Aqua panel is water resistant not water proof. Go for Jacko board or similar in shower area.

Will jacko board be strong enough to hold up porcelian tiles? It looks quite lightweight and flimsy.

neilmcl

How are you planning on fixing the boards, studs or dot & dab?

john.h

It holds more weight than plaster boards

pledgeX

Likely studs. There's definitely not bricks behind the tiles. There might be plywood, and if it's in good knick could attach the boards to the ply rather than rip the ply out too?

neilmcl

pledgeX wrote: »

Likely studs. There's definitely not bricks behind the tiles. There might be plywood, and if it's in good knick could attach the boards to the ply rather than rip the ply out too?

The makers of Aquapanel, and this may apply to other manufacturers, that there needs to be an air gap behind the boards so applying it directly to existing plywood boards may not be the best thing.