Hi all
I am in the process of finishing off our bathroom. At the moment I have got plasterboard dot and dabbed onto one of the walls. At one end we will have a shower cubicle that will take up half of the wall. This area has been tanked with the 'bal wp1 tanking kit' directly onto the plasterboard and will be tiled later. The tiling will stop where the end of the shower cubicle is and the rest of the wall is due to be skimmed, ready for painting. (My missus didn't want a fully tiled wall!)
I have a couple of questions. Our plasterer is coming in before the tiler. Will he be able to easily feather the skim so that there isn't a massive lip that the tiler will then have to deal with? Or is it better to get it tiled first then get the plasterer to skim up to the edge of the tiles? Also, to be on the safe side when I applied the tanking kit, I painted it a bit beyond where the shower cubicle/tiling will be. Will the plasterer struggle to be able to skim over this section? It's probably about 30 cm. In hindsight, should I have tanked only up to exactly where the shower ends?
I'm just now worried about the tanking being so waterproof that any skim will not key to the plasterboard.
Cheers
I am in the process of finishing off our bathroom. At the moment I have got plasterboard dot and dabbed onto one of the walls. At one end we will have a shower cubicle that will take up half of the wall. This area has been tanked with the 'bal wp1 tanking kit' directly onto the plasterboard and will be tiled later. The tiling will stop where the end of the shower cubicle is and the rest of the wall is due to be skimmed, ready for painting. (My missus didn't want a fully tiled wall!)
I have a couple of questions. Our plasterer is coming in before the tiler. Will he be able to easily feather the skim so that there isn't a massive lip that the tiler will then have to deal with? Or is it better to get it tiled first then get the plasterer to skim up to the edge of the tiles? Also, to be on the safe side when I applied the tanking kit, I painted it a bit beyond where the shower cubicle/tiling will be. Will the plasterer struggle to be able to skim over this section? It's probably about 30 cm. In hindsight, should I have tanked only up to exactly where the shower ends?
I'm just now worried about the tanking being so waterproof that any skim will not key to the plasterboard.
Cheers