Is this Base good enough for tiles?

[wau5]

Happy New year Everyone,

Don't have much experience in tiling , I'm in process of gutting out my old bathroom now, replacing piping and everything else in it in the process therefore making a total mess out of my walls. Also removed some tiles and now the old base under the tiles looks pretty terrible and with lots and lots of holes in old plasterboard from when removing the old tiles.
I'm going to be doing every wall except ceiling in tiles and now I'm not even sure if I can just put on new tiles on my old walls in case they just don't stick or the holes/lumps create a further problems?
at first I thought I was just going to rub down all the lumps/bumps and fill out the most problematic areas and just put tiles over everything...Now I'm not so sure about that 😀

I have made some pictures, was wondering if anyone who has some good experience in tiling could tell me is the base good enough for tiles or I would be better off just doing a skim coat of plaster on everything to smooth everything out and create a good base for tiles? Work wise This would set me back about a day to plaster every wall and few extra days until it dries so not really that problematic.

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[White Room]

What type of tiles are going to be fixing, is there a shower attached to the bath taps or a separate unit going in.

 

[wau5]

ceramic 300x500 tiles, there will be a wetroom in place of the old bath with new taps in a different place.

 

[White Room]

Where your going to fit the wetroom I would remove the boards and replace with wedi etc, must admit I can't remember when I've seen 2 doors in such a small bathroom.

 

[wau5]

Where your going to fit the wetroom I would remove the boards and replace with wedi etc, must admit I can't remember when I've seen 2 doors in such a small bathroom.

Yeah it's a super small bathroom.. 🙁
There's only 1 wall which is made from plasterboard (the one where the wetroom is going to be) I was thinking about replacing it with cementboard alltogether+ seal with one of those tanking kits as I needed to create some inside niches anyway from that material + just to keep everything more stable/rigid/waterproof as I doubt that old knackered plasterboard will do a good job at that.. Unless it would be plastered or so I thought? the rest of the walls are solid so would still need fixing up before tiling.

 

[Flintstone]

My best bit of advice would be put a shower tray in instead of a wet tray. Over board the walls with plasterboard, and over board with wedi in the wet area.

 

[wau5]

My best bit of advice would be put a shower tray in instead of a wet tray. Over board the walls with plasterboard, and over board with wedi in the wet area.

Just not a fan at all of the plastic crap 🙁 I'm still spending time to do it, so might as well spend a bit more and do it properly not the quick&easy way since I'm doing it for my own bathroom.

 

[WetSaw]

"Plastic crap"? When was the last time you bought a shower tray?

 

[wau5]

"Plastic crap"? When was the last time you bought a shower tray?

never bought one, but all the trays I have seen in stores on displays have looked like ''plastic crap'' at least to me.

 

[Flintstone]

As with most things in life, you get what you pay for, there are cheap trays and there are good trays. Same with wet room trays, there are a lot of bad ones out there. There is a lot to go wrong with a wet room hence me suggesting an easier option for a diy project

 

[wau5]

As with most things in life, you get what you pay for, there are cheap trays and there are good trays. Same with wet room trays, there are a lot of bad ones out there. There is a lot to go wrong with a wet room hence me suggesting an easier option for a diy project

Yup, you are correct on that Sir 🙂
I have probably only looked at the cheaper end trays ( those which have been displayed in stores) when I got that impression.

 

[CJ]

I take it that bath is fixed temporary?