Wet shimming backerboard

[One Day]

A plasterer watched me using packers and adding bits of timber to crap studs once. He told me his method is to just screw boards on to the crap timber and then dot and dab 9 1/2mm board on to that to get it bang on. Not something I've done before but it made sense, it's not going anywhere and can imagine it would be super fast.
Thoughts?

Easy and fast for a skimmed wall. Weak for a tiled wall though.

 

[Dumbo]

Unfortunately it’s where we are at in the construction industry for a long time now.
Each trade has issues with the one before and lots have the it will do attitude. You have to throw it back to those in charge of standards or get on and overcome.
How often do you here - a good tiler would get over that - so check first, price it right, and if you want it do it.

It's funny how a good tiler can get over things whereas if the tradesman in front of us was good we wouldn't have to get over their poor workmanship

 

[Flintstone]

This method of wet shimming is approved by schluter - in the US, so it can’t be that bad ?
I have done it myself on smaller areas like boxing in, not on full wall areas.

 

[macten]

When using packers do you guys screw them to the studs or stick them?

 

[Qwerty]

When using packers do you guys screw them to the studs or stick them?

I screw

 

[macten]

Me too but I always end up hitting the screw head far more often than I'd expect.

 

[Qwerty]

Me too but I always end up hitting the screw head far more often than I'd expect.

Haha..... I hate it when that happens! Happens when screwing backerboard down to screwed down ply too. Thousand to one chance and yet it happens at least once on every job.

 

[Dumbo]

Haha..... I hate it when that happens! Happens when screwing backerboard down to screwed down ply too. Thousand to one chance and yet it happens at least once on every job.

Bet you couldn't do it if you tried.