Bathroom Problem

kencoo

Hi All,

Currently renovating our bathroom. All tiles removed which has left holes and scrapes in the plasterboard. Its in bad nick so im going to have to put new plasterboard up. Issue is that the original walls are paper thin honeycone design with no battens apart from the ceiling and floor.
Ideally i could just stick the new plasterboard with dot and dab. not sure if that would work? Alternative is to batten it out with 2x1 then fix new boards to the wood. 3rd option would be to use ply/marine ply onto battens.

Any alternatives?

Thanks k

Sleeper12

If you are going to tile it again why not just skim the wall as it is.

chillin117

Sleeper12 wrote: »

If you are going to tile it again why not just skim the wall as it is.

I was just about to type the same answer !:)

kencoo

chillin117 wrote: »

I was just about to type the same answer !:)

But if the wall is in poor shape wouldn't it be difficult to skim?

sky6

A coat of Thistle Bond over what's there and then re skim the wall like new again. Then tile over it.

Sleeper12

kencoo wrote:

But if the wall is in poor shape wouldn't it be difficult to skim?

Not for a plasterer or a tiler

kencoo

Thanks for the help all.

chillin117

The whole idea of a skim is to level the surface so its nice and flat for tiling/painting