Apologies if this is a slightly repeated question.
I am refitting a bathroom and have stripped all the old damaged plaster back to the brick work. The brick work is very poor and uneven with poor quality/sandy mortar.
First off should i consider repointing the brickwork or is this total overkill?
I intent to seal the surface with a PVA sealer.
Its been suggested to "Dot Dab" the plasterboard and tile directly onto this. I am not keen on this idea and would rather used battons but as i say the brickwork is really quite uneven so this may be incredibly time consuming.
I am now looking at using "hardibacker" tiling board on all the walls rather than just around the shower/bath. i have also read that you can dotdab this into place and then mechanicaly fix directly onto the wall as long as you tka e anote of the locations of the dot dab and fix through these points. Is this a bit of a bodge or accaptable practice?
Finally am i am slightly unsure what order i should be proceeding in? I have the suite and obviously need to run all the pipe work and test this before laying flooring. Should i do this then install the suite then fix boarding and til etc or should i complete the plumbing, and then fix all flooring and wall boarding, then fit suite and finally tile.
Many thanks for any advice!
Jamie
I am refitting a bathroom and have stripped all the old damaged plaster back to the brick work. The brick work is very poor and uneven with poor quality/sandy mortar.
First off should i consider repointing the brickwork or is this total overkill?
I intent to seal the surface with a PVA sealer.
Its been suggested to "Dot Dab" the plasterboard and tile directly onto this. I am not keen on this idea and would rather used battons but as i say the brickwork is really quite uneven so this may be incredibly time consuming.
I am now looking at using "hardibacker" tiling board on all the walls rather than just around the shower/bath. i have also read that you can dotdab this into place and then mechanicaly fix directly onto the wall as long as you tka e anote of the locations of the dot dab and fix through these points. Is this a bit of a bodge or accaptable practice?
Finally am i am slightly unsure what order i should be proceeding in? I have the suite and obviously need to run all the pipe work and test this before laying flooring. Should i do this then install the suite then fix boarding and til etc or should i complete the plumbing, and then fix all flooring and wall boarding, then fit suite and finally tile.
Many thanks for any advice!
Jamie