Hi all
My bathroom is currently tiled floor to ceiling. The standard of the job is ok (and the tiles are just about ok on the style front too) but I have many (15+) holes left in various tiles around the room due to previous fittings such as towel rails, electric heaters etc. I'm also looking at replacing the current shower cubicle with a bath and I suspect this will leave me with a few more holes to deal with. I don't fancy trying to fill the holes, and I can't source matching tiles so I was intending to remove the tiles. I know this will damage the plasterboard and the common suggestion seems to be "replace the whole board".
The problem I face is that one of the walls is of laminated plasterboard construction - 12mm+25mm+12mm This also happens to be the wall that the bath will run along. Ideally I'd like to use either a cement board or MR PB, but how would I go about over-boarding it when I have nothing but plasterboard to fix too? There are no vertical studs in these walls, only a top and sole plate. The other walls are dot n dab PB onto block.
Should I cross my fingers, attempt to gently remove the tiles and have the wall skimmed instead? From what I can see behind the shower it looks like it might have been tiled on top of the existing wallpaper. The other side of the wall is finished and forms part of my bedroom - pretty much the only finished room in the house so far.
The only saving grace is that it isn't a Paramount wall - came across that stuff during my time as a Sparky and it was a nightmare
Thanks in advance
My bathroom is currently tiled floor to ceiling. The standard of the job is ok (and the tiles are just about ok on the style front too) but I have many (15+) holes left in various tiles around the room due to previous fittings such as towel rails, electric heaters etc. I'm also looking at replacing the current shower cubicle with a bath and I suspect this will leave me with a few more holes to deal with. I don't fancy trying to fill the holes, and I can't source matching tiles so I was intending to remove the tiles. I know this will damage the plasterboard and the common suggestion seems to be "replace the whole board".
The problem I face is that one of the walls is of laminated plasterboard construction - 12mm+25mm+12mm This also happens to be the wall that the bath will run along. Ideally I'd like to use either a cement board or MR PB, but how would I go about over-boarding it when I have nothing but plasterboard to fix too? There are no vertical studs in these walls, only a top and sole plate. The other walls are dot n dab PB onto block.
Should I cross my fingers, attempt to gently remove the tiles and have the wall skimmed instead? From what I can see behind the shower it looks like it might have been tiled on top of the existing wallpaper. The other side of the wall is finished and forms part of my bedroom - pretty much the only finished room in the house so far.
The only saving grace is that it isn't a Paramount wall - came across that stuff during my time as a Sparky and it was a nightmare
Thanks in advance