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[QUOTE="JaseyWales, post: 951505, member: 52620"] Looks good, think I'll have to do similar. Think that the half board option is no good as I can't match the two halves of the wall with 6mm. Think I'll build up the bottom in render or hardwall and then screw 6mm backer board across the lot (Hardieboard seems popular). One concern then is refitting the bath (I'll have to remove it as the bath was fitted to the old tiles). Best practice apparently is to fit bath to the wall and then fix backer boards a few cm away from bath edge to avoid it getting soaked...the tile on top down to the bath edge. Everyone says don't fit the bath to the backer boards. Also they say never tile on hardwall render as it's too absorbent for tile adhesive. So I'm guessing there's only a few options: 1: Sand/cement render and tile on top 2. Hardwall then finishing plaster then a Pva wash and then tile on top. 3. Backer boards This will add a bit to the wall so need to be careful tiles will meet my bath correctly...else might have to fix the bath to some plywood. There's a pic....the house has got old original tiles around the room but they have failed around the bath so I plan on putting a different style round the bath, above the tiles was wallpaper so no good with a shower and had to go. Think I'm going to try backer boards as it's a shower and I'll hope it'll last.[ATTACH type="full"]108446[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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