Please help!

[saffg02]

Hi, I need some advice.
I am in the process of doing up my bathroom, we live in a terrace house which had larve and plaster walls (not sure if i've spelt that correctly!) which I have been ripping down and replacing in each room with batons and plasterboard.
Having done this in the bathroom I have found that one of the corners in the room is not level, this is also the corner where I am going to put my bath and it will be tiled up to the window sill level. My Dad tells me I need to take the boards down and pack them out (he does love to prolong a job!) and I was wondering if I could plaster the suface to make it even before tiling or if I could even it out with tile adhesive?
Basically I want to avoid taken the boards down as they have been filled and sanded down.
Any advice would be greatly received
thank you

[Sir Ramic]

I think you mean its of plumb ? If so, by how much ?

[saffg02]

From the middle of the window sill, where the board starts, to the corner of the room it gradually goes in to the depth of about an inch

[david campbell]

it would defo be easier to pack out the stud frame,it will be cheaper and quicker than sorting when you are tiling!

[Gazzatile]

Yes you will get a better job in the long run by packing out the plaster board using adhesive will not give you a flat surface as you will get some shrinkage from the adhesive as this happens to pull the tiles in and out of level

[365drills]

No room is truly level and plumb so tilers work the best magic they can given the circumstances.

However anything you can do within reason to make the surface true and square is worth it in the long term.

Preparation it the key to all results. And has been mentioned above its better to alter cheap plasterboard and batons to get the levels right. But I appreciate with older properties there is only so much you can do.

Nonetheless time spent getting that wall flat and square will be worth it. If you are like me and not so critical on the detail then consider outsourcing the preparation of the area to somebody like a builder. I did and the lazer levels and expertise proved worthwhile.

[beanz]

Walls generally run out. As long as it's not by a huge amount, i wouldn't worry about it. It's the flatness of the wall that's most important.

[Uheat]

hi and welcome to the forums

[whitebeam]

Hello and welcome

[doug boardley]

I think your dad's talking sense mate,fail to prepare, prepare to fail!

[cornish_crofter]

If you're going to the trouble of reboarding then you've got to do it properly. It won't be that difficult. I've managed to level out a joist with grip fill before now! It was about 1/8th of an inch but enough to throw the tiles I was laying out.

Work out what you need then rip off the right thickness off a piece of 4x2 with your circular saw. Alternitively buy some plastic wedges or use offcuts of upvc to do the job, a friendly window co may be able to help you out here.

I envy you at the moment, I'm trying to fix 6x6 tiles onto a wall that the customer bregrudginely let me patch up to spend as little as poss. If she'd let me hack all the plaster off and board it out the job would have gone smoother. Still, better than fixig the tiles onto crumbly plaster!

[mikethetile]

your dads right, aint we always,

if you dont follow his advice now and continue the job you will always regret it

remove the board and pack out, you are going to have to re joint which isnt easy,

take your time and cut out as much as you can with a sharp knife ,retape and joint as before.

its a pain when this sort of thing happens and you kick yourelf for not checking for square before jointing,

its worth losing a day out of your schedule now to have a square corner to fit your bath into

theres an expression in the building trade

people soon forget how long a job took but they always remember a good job