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Hello, i'm new here. Please be gentle.
Today me and a mate scraped all the tiles off the main wall in my kitchen, the one with the heavy double porcelain sink and 3m of units with a nice top on, that I don't really want to pull all out of the wall and disrupt the household of 4 members. The wall is a retaining wall for next door, my kitchen is 5ft down from ground level, ie the Victorian wall holds soil with shrubs that is 5ft higher on their side than mine. When we got the house in 1992 we tanked that wall, it was wet. We tiled it 20 yrs ago and the tiny little tiles have been falling out for a few years, then a couple of bigger ones "tented" right behind the sink so finally I ripped them all down. They lasted well. The bottom half of the wall is damp. The plaster was wet and soggy in the middle, a skim coat on the tanking render, we scraped the worst off. I know I need to pull the kitchen and sink out really, and put waterproof cement board on the wall, then put the kitchen back, but could I skim it with a cement and just tile it ? ? ? I have nice big tiles this time. I will be grateful for any advice.
Today me and a mate scraped all the tiles off the main wall in my kitchen, the one with the heavy double porcelain sink and 3m of units with a nice top on, that I don't really want to pull all out of the wall and disrupt the household of 4 members. The wall is a retaining wall for next door, my kitchen is 5ft down from ground level, ie the Victorian wall holds soil with shrubs that is 5ft higher on their side than mine. When we got the house in 1992 we tanked that wall, it was wet. We tiled it 20 yrs ago and the tiny little tiles have been falling out for a few years, then a couple of bigger ones "tented" right behind the sink so finally I ripped them all down. They lasted well. The bottom half of the wall is damp. The plaster was wet and soggy in the middle, a skim coat on the tanking render, we scraped the worst off. I know I need to pull the kitchen and sink out really, and put waterproof cement board on the wall, then put the kitchen back, but could I skim it with a cement and just tile it ? ? ? I have nice big tiles this time. I will be grateful for any advice.