I have Someone who shall remain nameless has knackered the bathroom walls a bit while trying to remove the old tiles.
They were put straight onto normal plasterboard, and not particularly well, which is why they had to come off, but of course half the board is now not there any more and will want replacing.
We are on an already stretched budget but I wondered what we ought to do, basically.
Do we:
a) somehow cut at about 6" above the highest knackered bit (tiles were only about 3ft6 up the walls) and remove the board and then cut some new board to fit into place, tiling over the join - I don't possess a circular saw and am concerned about cutting it badly tbh, especially round the window - then make good the gaps in the corners etc etc using ready mix, which I am good at
b) get someone else in to do this boarding fiasco, AND have the room skimmed after
c) take off all the plasterboard (room is about 7x10'6) as it has been put on with large gaps in some of the corners anyway (there was pipework there, they clearly were bewildered by this) and start again?
If c, what sort of board do we use? The whole house is lath and plaster, but I think most of the lath has been removed in the bathroom. Which is a shame.
Do we skim all of it whatever we do? Is there a specially good way to do it?
I will be tiling (superbly ) up to about 4ft at least once it's been made sound.
We have no flooring yet btw and the existing skirting is partial and recent and very badly fitted, in fact I don't think it is really attached to anything.
Sigh
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What do you use to line a bathroom? Normal plasterboard?
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Soonish · 29/09/2014 18:51
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