Prepare Lath And Plastered Walls For Tiling / Tiles

[Spare Tool]

Had an enquiry for a bathroom doing, its half tiled at the moment onto plaster and lats, bath out and shower going in and will be tiled to cieling. The lady is adamant she cant stand the thought of the mess of ripping the lot out down to the brickwork and dot n dabbing. Cleanest plan I can come up with is remove tiles and leave the plasterd walls as they are then find the studs holding the lats and secure moisture board screwing into studs..sound feasible or any better suggestions?

 

[Dan]

Lath and plaster you mean?

Not sure the stuffing for that was meant to carry that much weight. And you might find the wood is a bit brittle now. Must have been there 20 maybe 30 years? Plaster starts to degrade after about 20 years so it won't be strong at all.

 

[White Room]

Got to be honest when that lime mortar goes there's no holding back, obviously an old property...time to rip out IMO.

 

[Spare Tool]

Lath and plaster you mean?

Not sure the stuffing for that was meant to carry that much weight. And you might find the wood is a bit brittle now. Must have been there 20 maybe 30 years? Plaster starts to degrade after about 20 years so it won't be strong at all.

1950's house Dan so its been there a long time, I thought the plaster was bonded onto lats then skimmed over and the lats were secured to 3x2" that were fixed to the brickwork. See what you mean about the wood drying out though, any other ideas rather than stripping the lot off, tbh the job won't happen if that is the only answer but id really like to help the lady out as she's getting to the point she struggles getting out of the bath and really needs a walk in shower area..

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

well with these kind of walls i would drill holes every 150mm at the top put a tube in with a funnel atached the mix unibond 40 60 with water then pour in this soaks in to the back of the plaster and conbines with the laths and seeps through to the plaster surfaces when this drys its hardens you can give it a whack with a hammer no problem it will hold up
was show how to do this by old time plaster .when we had to save a few ceiling in a victoran house took up the floor boards soaked the ceilings they dried up as hard as nails so they could now be replastered .used this on a few bathrooms over years always worked

 

[Spare Tool]

well with these kind of walls i would drill holes every 150mm at the top put a tube in with a funnel atached the mix unibond 40 60 with water then pour in this soaks in to the back of the plaster and conbines with the laths and seeps through to the plaster surfaces when this drys its hardens you can give it a whack with a hammer no problem it will hold up
was show how to do this by old time plaster .when we had to save a few ceiling in a victoran house took up the floor boards soaked the ceilings they dried up as hard as nails so they could now be replastered .used this on a few bathrooms over years always worked

Interesting Ray, what's the mix made up of exactly?

 

[White Room]

usually find the 3x2 were independent, never seen them fixed to brickwork/blockwork...over boarded a few over the years, again to save on mess but the studs were usually all over the place just the lime mortar that straightened the walls.

 

[White Room]

well with these kind of walls i would drill holes every 150mm at the top put a tube in with a funnel atached the mix unibond 40 60 with water then pour in this soaks in to the back of the plaster and conbines with the laths and seeps through to the plaster surfaces when this drys its hardens you can give it a whack with a hammer no problem it will hold up
was show how to do this by old time plaster .when we had to save a few ceiling in a victoran house took up the floor boards soaked the ceilings they dried up as hard as nails so they could now be replastered .used this on a few bathrooms over years always worked

In 43 years I have never seen or heard of that....

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

Interesting Ray, what's the mix made up of exactly?

40% unibond 60% water if its realy dry up the water to 70%

 

[Spare Tool]

40% unibond 60% water if its realy dry up the water to 70%

Sorry if it's a stupid question but unibond??