Shower tray sealing tapes

[Ben-gee]

Keep the plasterboard back 5mm, then you can skim/polyfilla the 9mm gap afterwards.
You don’t need to tank- water cannot go through the panels.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

You can do either the multi panel addy is good enough to do the plasterboard to plaster etc

 

[jrtrrror]

Keep the plasterboard back 5mm, then you can skim/polyfilla the 9mm gap afterwards.
You don’t need to tank- water cannot go through the panels.

Hi Ben-gee. I did start wondering if tanking the area was over the top. Going back to boarding 9ver one side of the enclosure. Can you use board plasterboard adhesive onto plastered walls? If so, any recommendations on which adhesive?
Ta

 

[Ben-gee]

If your panels are opaque, I would screw the plasterboard to the existing wall- otherwise your new plasterboard and the new panels are all relying on a glued bond to the original skim coat. The max weight for this is 20kg/sqm and you’ll be close to this I’m sure. What could happen is the skim coat will come away from the background plaster and then nothing is held up…

 

[jrtrrror]

If your panels are opaque, I would screw the plasterboard to the existing wall- otherwise your new plasterboard and the new panels are all relying on a glued bond to the original skim coat. The max weight for this is 20kg/sqm and you’ll be close to this I’m sure. What could happen is the skim coat will come away from the background plaster and then nothing is held up…

Yep. Got it
Thanks Ben-gee

 

[king of pipes]

You could do this with 6 mm thermo panel shower boards as I did here , then add panels better job all round ??? Kop

 

[Ben-gee]

I’m a fan of thermopanel, and am using it on my current job for a tiled shower and wall hung toilet scenario.
However in OP’s job I think it’s overkill and adding unnecessary expense…

 

[king of pipes]

Have to disagree there's never over kill where showers and trays are involved the prep is the most important part of the job, I do at least 10 - 20 a year and from reading the ops description of what's he has I'd seriously consider it ?
I wouldn't personally use a 3 mm board for showers , I'd use the thicker 9 mm cellular shower boards for a more affordable job , l'm starting one on Monday with Multi panel my favoured product. Kop

 

[Ben-gee]

Fair enough, having recently spent time watching a designer massively overspend on some aspects of a project - I’m aware that it’s someone else’s money we are spending and a pragmatic approach is sometimes called for.

KOP are you aware that multipanel (if you mean Grant Westfield) are going to mdf ?
I was a bit miffed at this, if you choose an unpopular colour you may get ply for a while longer - but the old “blizzard” is mdf already.
Apparently the ply originated in Russia.

 

[king of pipes]

Well if that's the case Ben -gee then I'll move to another product there's more than one mate I've used shower wall which is MDF but didn't rate it , I'm using the frost white this week must be older stock as it's ply backed ? Kop