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Discuss Wall prep? in the Tile Adhesive, Grout and Substrate Preparation at TilersForums; Hi All Hoping for anybodies experience input. Been to look at a small bathroom and 3 walls are plasterboard/skim and the forth is brick/whatever they use?/skim. The guy has taken ...
          
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    Hi All
    Hoping for anybodies experience input.
    Been to look at a small bathroom and 3 walls are plasterboard/skim and the forth is brick/whatever they use?/skim.
    The guy has taken off the tiles and where the adhesive was it has brought off the 1-2mm skim.There's more like blobs of skim missing as it appears the previous tiler justed dotted the centre of the old tile.
    A new bath as been fitted and secured to 3 of the wall so cannot re-boarded.
    The plasterboard is fine,no holes,very solid,so should i be fine to tile(300mm tiles) directly onto the surface after priming using a 10mm trowel and powdered adhesive or would i be wise to re-skim?
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    Kev

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    ok to tile Kev, as long as there's no holes etc

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    Cheers Doug
    That's what my instincts were thinking
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    maybe back butter a few tiles wher the holes are,if the walls are really bad then you could screw some hardibacker board on walls then tile.
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    Moved to prep forum.

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