kitchen tiling surface options

[olyboy123]

Hi guys,

I've just removed the tiles off the wall in my kitchen. Once the new kitchen's in I'm going to replace them with tiles half way up the wall and painted above. I was thinking of boarding up the whole wall with WBP ply, tiling, and then painting the bare ply area. I don't really want to replace with new plasterboard as I'm not too keen on getting the painted area skimmed.

I cant remove the old plasterboard as it's been dot + dabbed and will be a nightmare to remove.

Any ideas? What would you do?

cheers,
oly

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[Burnerman]

Just me, but I'd seriously consider getting the wall skimmed, at the end of the day.
John

 

[AdamCH]

Don't try to tile onto ply.

 

[tictic]

its very easy to remove dot/dabbed p/board...!!!
and even easier to put back onto the wall..dot/dab or stud the wall out...

what your wanting to do...no..

just do it right first time and you will have peice off mind...

 

[Skimmers]

a good coat of WBA or BOND IT to key the wall then two coat skim the lot if plaster the full room nothing worse then a unfinished room with the new kitchen/bathroom suite inplace now having to plaster/paint round it

just empty the room and get it skimmed then paint then fit the kitchen then tile sorted


Just saying thats all you have to take my advice