How to prepare walls for tiling around shower over bath?

[jwilf]

So my new bath is in, and I've given myself the job of tiling the bathroom. It's an acrylic L-shaped shower bath, one wall is newly plastered and the other (where the shower will be mounted) is a stud wall with Hardiebacker board:

New bath

• jwilf
• 13 Jan 2019

Shower bath in new bathroom before tiling

I'm using flat matt white metro-style ceramic tiles, 200 x 100mm.

Thinking of proceeding as follows:

• Prime the plaster wall with BAL SBR bonding and priming agent - https://www.toppstiles.co.uk/tprod8763/bal-bond-sbr-primer-1ltr.html
• Tape joins in the Hardiebacker with glass fibre tape and tile adhesive (as recommended in the HB installation guide)
• Tape the corner where the walls meet in the same way
• Install the tiles with BAL Green Star ready mixed adhesive: https://www.toppstiles.co.uk/tprod2927/bal-green-star-15kg.html
• Grout with BAL Micromax2 gunmetal - https://www.toppstiles.co.uk/tprod44007/bal-micromax2-gunmetal-25kg.html
• Silicone round the bath edge

Am I on the right track? Or missing anything?

Thanks

 

[jwilf]

I guess what I'm doing must be fine because nobody has popped up to tell me otherwise!

 

[flameport]

It's not what I would have done, but given the situation you have now got, it will probably do.

 

[jwilf]

And what situation would that be?

 

[tilergirl18]

just in case anyone is reading this, the priming agent to use would be https://tile.co.uk/products/norcros-prime-bond?_pos=2&_sid=97ef30cdc&_ss=r

 

[tilergirl18]

this is an awesome adhesive too and covers up to 12m2 https://tile.co.uk/collections/tile...ultralite-d2-ready-mixed-shower-wall-adhesive