Batten thickness / fixings for aquapanel

So, went to dig out the 'soft' mortar so I could prepare the wall for filling / skimming to tile on as per a reply to my previous post. Found that as I kept jabbing at the wall with a chisel, more and more mortaer kept coming off!. So now will be dry lining the walls!. Have bought aquapanel (Wickes are buy 3 get 1 free at the moment by the way), and it looks as though I will not be able to simply use adhesive to fit it (looking around on the forum) so I guess it will be battens.

Thing is, aquapanel screws are 40 odd mm long ut I want to keep the battens to minimum thickness. That means that the aquapanel screws may go through the battens into the brickwork. I guess fitting wallplugs into the brickwork will be useless as the screws wont go far enough in in order to get the plugs to 'bite'. Anybody have any ideas / advice.

Also, which side of the aquapanel do you tile on - the mesh side or smooth side?

Thanks for the info once again.....


Cheers,

Rob

there are a few guides here to have a read through.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...=DVXA,DVXA:2006-10,DVXA:en&q=fixing+aquapanel
also fix your battons out first using wall plugs.then start to lay your aquapanel.

aaargh,

Tile onto the smooth side - it has the printed text on it (got this from one of the numerous Knauf websites). Just finished refurbing my bathroom, using Aquapanel.


teddyk.