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Hello,
I would start wit ha little back story. We've both a house where the main bathroom begged for renovation, however we didn't have the dime, so we've decided to get it slowly. The bathroom was half tiles and half wallpaper. In the supper I've removed the wallpaper, re-skimmed the walls and painted, however although we have though that would be enough for now, we have just decided to redo the rest completely whilst keeping newly skimmed walls where possible. As we don't want to cover whole wall in tiles, the best size match were tiles 300x600 for our purposes, and we got some in porcelain with 7.4mm thickness. As the porcelain tiles are heavier then ceramic I have couple of questions to ask/solve. (pictures of the walls are at the bottom)
Walls
The bathroom has two plaster board walls and two brickwall with plaster. After taking down the tiles from the plasterboard the paper is obviously torn, The damage isn't deep though, so I'm not sure if this surface is sufficient for tailing or not. As far as I understand my options are:
- clear torn paper and tile over it
- clear the paper, seal/bond and then tile
- cut the damaged plasterboard and replace with new one
Similar questions are for the brickwall, as there is plaster on them. It seems to be in good shape, however as the plaster according to standards should hold only 20kg/m2 I'm not sure I can tile with porcelain tiles over it. So what I can do is:
- keep the plaster on and tile over it
- remove the plaster on the places where I want the tiles and place plasterboards directly to the brickwall and tile over it.
Adhesive
- I've picked Mapei Adesilex P9, is that the right choice?
- I'm not sure with the trowel size though.
Thank you very much for any advice.
Here are the photos of the current state (the walls still need cleaning form the old adhesive )
I would start wit ha little back story. We've both a house where the main bathroom begged for renovation, however we didn't have the dime, so we've decided to get it slowly. The bathroom was half tiles and half wallpaper. In the supper I've removed the wallpaper, re-skimmed the walls and painted, however although we have though that would be enough for now, we have just decided to redo the rest completely whilst keeping newly skimmed walls where possible. As we don't want to cover whole wall in tiles, the best size match were tiles 300x600 for our purposes, and we got some in porcelain with 7.4mm thickness. As the porcelain tiles are heavier then ceramic I have couple of questions to ask/solve. (pictures of the walls are at the bottom)
Walls
The bathroom has two plaster board walls and two brickwall with plaster. After taking down the tiles from the plasterboard the paper is obviously torn, The damage isn't deep though, so I'm not sure if this surface is sufficient for tailing or not. As far as I understand my options are:
- clear torn paper and tile over it
- clear the paper, seal/bond and then tile
- cut the damaged plasterboard and replace with new one
Similar questions are for the brickwall, as there is plaster on them. It seems to be in good shape, however as the plaster according to standards should hold only 20kg/m2 I'm not sure I can tile with porcelain tiles over it. So what I can do is:
- keep the plaster on and tile over it
- remove the plaster on the places where I want the tiles and place plasterboards directly to the brickwall and tile over it.
Adhesive
- I've picked Mapei Adesilex P9, is that the right choice?
- I'm not sure with the trowel size though.
Thank you very much for any advice.
Here are the photos of the current state (the walls still need cleaning form the old adhesive )