Hi all!
Doing bathroom at moment and have removed all the crappy old tiles from the walls.
Mrs. surreywill wants new tiles only in wet areas, and rest of the room painted. Suits me as less tiling to do and cheaper.
The newly tiled areas are being stripped back to brick, cement backing boards up, etc. - all done nice and proper.
However, I'm scratching my head a little on the rest of the room. Mostly the old tiles came off very well, but there's a few large areas where the old surface came off with the tiles and left the base render exposed. I reckon after removing all the unsound areas I'm left with maybe 2 or 3 m^2 to patch with a suitable material.
I feel like re-boarding the whole room is taking it too far.
The old surface looks like some kind of cement-based skim. My reasoning: it's grey
It's about 2mm thick. I've attached a pic.
Anyone know what it is and what I should patch with?
I'm very comfortable skimming with gypsum, but something tells me the edges won't "blend" in well with the grey stuff. Besides, is gypsum surface not recommended for humid areas like bathroom?
I'm not stressing too much about this as it's just walls but any thoughts welcomed.
SW.
Doing bathroom at moment and have removed all the crappy old tiles from the walls.
Mrs. surreywill wants new tiles only in wet areas, and rest of the room painted. Suits me as less tiling to do and cheaper.
The newly tiled areas are being stripped back to brick, cement backing boards up, etc. - all done nice and proper.
However, I'm scratching my head a little on the rest of the room. Mostly the old tiles came off very well, but there's a few large areas where the old surface came off with the tiles and left the base render exposed. I reckon after removing all the unsound areas I'm left with maybe 2 or 3 m^2 to patch with a suitable material.
I feel like re-boarding the whole room is taking it too far.
The old surface looks like some kind of cement-based skim. My reasoning: it's grey
It's about 2mm thick. I've attached a pic.
Anyone know what it is and what I should patch with?
I'm very comfortable skimming with gypsum, but something tells me the edges won't "blend" in well with the grey stuff. Besides, is gypsum surface not recommended for humid areas like bathroom?
I'm not stressing too much about this as it's just walls but any thoughts welcomed.
SW.