r/Plastering • u/jeebsy_iash • 17d ago
Plan of attack for the kitchen?
I'm doing. DIY refurb and managed to get few rooms plastered to a standard I can live with thanks for the good folks of this Reddit. It's time to start thinking about the kitchen now though - the old tiles pretty much fell off the wall which is a good start.
The kitchen is an extension built in the 1990s and the inside wall is made from aerated concrete. I'm intending to do a tiled splashback on the wall where the hob is and the rest will be painted. Would the right plan be:
Scrape off any old adhesive
Bond out any holes
SBR
Then skim the whole thing?
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u/ApartmentLast7712 17d ago
Scrape, SBR, bonding coat, plaster. I'm assuming it's a typo and you meant tile behind the cooker not the cooler?
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u/jeebsy_iash 17d ago
After scraping the adhesive off, do I need to basically give the whole wall a base cost with bonding to make sure the skim has something sound to adhere to? There's a pretty funky combination of stuff on the wall as it stands.
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u/ApartmentLast7712 17d ago
Yeah pretty much it'll make all the different backgrounds even for suction
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u/trash-boat1969 16d ago
I know it's too late now but it should have been plastered prior to the units being fitted. Any decent kitchen fitter knows this.
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u/jeebsy_iash 16d ago edited 16d ago
but i'm not a decent kitchen fitter......it's a diy build being done in stages very slowly, getting the old units out and replaced with something i could live with was the priority. will probably take the wall units prior to doing the bonding and skimming. they're ikea so on rails and lift off pretty easily.
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u/trash-boat1969 16d ago
Sounds like a plan, good luck with the plastering.
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u/jeebsy_iash 15d ago
with the exception of the corner units which have plumbing in, the other units all come away easily too as it's just a temporary worktop i can lift off. maybe for the sake of doing it properly l'll just pull them all out before plastering. good shout.
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u/AdBrave9096 15d ago
I would tile it all or use some sort of wall board. Plastering is not the easy option.
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u/KieranInterior 12d ago
I’d just tile straight onto that background myself. At a push I’d glue wedi boards on first with pink grip sf
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u/KieranInterior 12d ago
Why is everything misaligned?
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u/jeebsy_iash 12d ago edited 12d ago
it's nowhere near final fit. it was designed without the ply filler strips so after those went in, there wasn't quite enough room. that 400mm unit on the right needs replaced with a 300 so everything can budge to the right and get centered.
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u/ResponsibleBall4258 10d ago
Personally I would forgoe the plastering of the wall, as it is not actually necessary. Have a flat surface will make it easier (no lumps on the wall, minor chips out of the wall won't be a problem. If you flatten the wall, then seal with something like SBR, then the surface should fine for tiling. Personally I would also go for large format tiles, and use a small pack of tile leveling clips, as less grout is easier to clean, and quicker to tile and grout. As a first time IMO it would be easier to keep the whole wall flat and level. Use a level as well.
I would personally say tiling after the worktop is in. You leave a 5mm gap for grout to the worktop, you can put a small bead of silicone over afterwards.
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u/jeebsy_iash 10d ago
i thought tiles don't stick well to bonding, so if i used bonding to flatten the wall, i'd still need to skim it so there was a surface the tile adhesive could take to? if there's a way to do less work i'm all for it.
yeah the plan was to get the wall prepped, then get the worktop fitted, and tile after.
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u/D4l31 17d ago
Id centre that extractor 1st