Tiling bathroom

[Admiral.snelson]

Hello, I am just about to fit out my bathroom, should I line out with ply and tile on top of that? Been reading lots about sealing wood with pva first and tiling with silicone, or should I use moisture resistant plasterboard and tile on that? Any advice greatly received.

[trackman]

Waterproof board is available from builders merchants, Wicks, B&Q etc. It's not plasterboard and is far more suitable than that or ply for lining a shower. I've used it in my house in the past with success.

Tape the joints with the stuff sold for the purpose to avoid the tiles cracking due to movement along the joints.

[blackrose]

It depends on what you're doing and what wall substrate is already there. Is this going to be a wetroom or just a tiled batchroom with a shower? If it's the latter and the tiles aren't actually going to get very wet then there's no need for waterproof board.

 

I know some people on boats have successfully tiles inside showers, but inside my glass shower quadrant I used tile-effect board because it's just easier and less likely to leak, but in the rest of the bathroom I tiled straight onto the oak-faced ply wall with marineflex (one blob near each corner and a blob in the middle for large tiles) and then I grouted with a flexible grout. Bear in mind that unlike tile adhesive you can only tile one row at a time with marineflex and need to leave at least a few hours between each row for the marineflex to go off. The advantages are that it's far stronger and more flexible than any tile adhesive.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2013 by blackrose

[Admiral.snelson]

Thanks guys worked a treat!