Tiling Onto Plasterboard In Shower

Tiling onto plasterboard walls.

Tiling onto plasterboard in shower.

It takes just a little moisture for drywall s paper facing to disintegrate and turn moldy. If you want to update your kitchen or bathroom walls with tiles you don t have to remove existing painted. Even a tiny amount of water introduced through a crack or hole in the tile will expand once it hits the moisture hungry paper facing and gypsum core of the drywall. It should be a minimum 12 5mm thick when fixed to timber framing or battening and fixed in accordance with the manufacturers recommendations.

How to tile over painted drywall. I m using travertine tiles in a titchy shower room 1400mm length by 700mm wide and i was wondering whether or not i could put the tiles directly onto the plaster board without skim coating them. Don t scrimp on what could be a costly redecoration. Having had a bathroom tiled straight on to plasterboard by the previous owners of the house i would definitely not recommend it.

Urgent advice required for a desperate man and customer many thanks. Because paper is an organic product it will quickly become moldy. The wedi board wedi shower system includes special bonding agents referred to as wedi caulk though is much more than caulk that waterproofs the seams in the. Preparation for tiling onto plasterboard plasterboard should be dry securely fixed and rigid with no protruding fixings with the face to receive decorative finishes exposed.

The rest of the room is fine for tiling onto normal plasterboard. Compare this to the common practice of tiling over drywall and you get the idea that you have a totally different shower by using a product that is meant to function in the shower. You ll only need it in the shower area the rest of the bathroom will be fine onto plasterboard.