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Stooby
Hi, I'm new here, hope someone could give me some guidance.
I'm ripping out the bathroom in my 1930's semi, and will be tiling (undecided what type at the moment but assume large) and will be putting in studwork to conceaol the mixer shower pipework.
I'm pretty much decided on hardibacker for the studwork but I'm unsure what to do about the tanking for both the hardiback and the wall running along the bath.
The wall is sound in some parts, bad in others, looks to be sand/cement render on the brick with skim over. As a lot of it hishollow and won't hold tiles I'm going to re-render.
My question is, do I need to tank the render prior to tiling, or is it just a case of using whatever primer the adheshive manufacturer recommends?
I'm thinking of using Mapei or Dunlop/BAL adheshives if it helps. If I do have to treat the rendered wall can the same product also be used on the hardibacker?
Sorry if these are daft questions, I've been doing a lot of searching and suffering from information overload, not sure what the best route is.
I'm ripping out the bathroom in my 1930's semi, and will be tiling (undecided what type at the moment but assume large) and will be putting in studwork to conceaol the mixer shower pipework.
I'm pretty much decided on hardibacker for the studwork but I'm unsure what to do about the tanking for both the hardiback and the wall running along the bath.
The wall is sound in some parts, bad in others, looks to be sand/cement render on the brick with skim over. As a lot of it hishollow and won't hold tiles I'm going to re-render.
My question is, do I need to tank the render prior to tiling, or is it just a case of using whatever primer the adheshive manufacturer recommends?
I'm thinking of using Mapei or Dunlop/BAL adheshives if it helps. If I do have to treat the rendered wall can the same product also be used on the hardibacker?
Sorry if these are daft questions, I've been doing a lot of searching and suffering from information overload, not sure what the best route is.