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发表于 2014-5-31 13:50:24
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Sorry I may cause confusing when introducing my own experience. The company I hired did all bathrooms with villa boards as the backing with waterproofing before tiling over.
So the correct answer for general tiling is villa board or cement sheet.
However I did ask the tilers to tile 2 walls in the kitchen. The walls are not prone to wet area. They are just next walls. I tile the walls for decoration. The walls are gyprock.
My laundry is another story as it is not a small area. I have a few up to roof pantries installed there plus sewing area. The laundry actually is encloded under a long stone bench sealed by a row of cabinets. No tile is under the stone bench.
I have the tile above the stone bench like adding a splash back. The wall is double-brick not very flat. The company sheeted the wall with steel channels and Gyprock Aquachek. This product is used in the less concerned area. The builder says not all room is WET area. I think he probably right. For a open plan the room could be very big. In my case the tiling area can be considered DRY.
Just searched Gyprock Aquachek. This plaster board can be used for tiling over.
http://www.gyprock.com.au/Pages/Products/Plasterboard/Aquachek.aspx
Anyway I'd still prefer villa boards. The thing is this was not in the contract. I only requested a splashback style tiling using the left-over from the kitchen in the laundry. The tiles are 600x600 one row arround the caesarstone bench.
From you professionals' advices this could be a problem in long-run. I may have to pull off the tiles if any crack/strip happen and re-fit in a villa board. Or simply grab full piece of caesarstone as the splash-back. Actually I am regretting not having the same stone as the splashback.
Many thanks zlcs1965 and longdan for your comments. Learned a lot.
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