Bathroom plasterboard

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Hello everyone. Some advice needed please. My builder has fixed 12.5mm plasterboard throughout the house using dot&dab on solid walls and screws on timber stud walls. He's currently plastering and will soon be moving into the bathroom. This is what I need help with. The bathrooms are solid on one side and timber stud on the other three sides. I wanted to use the MR board as I feel it's a upgrade at not a huge cost. Can this be dot & dabbed onto the solid wall and screwed into the stud just like the standard plasterboard? I intend to tile the floor and walls and paint the ceiling. Would the ceiling be skimmed as the rest of the house to give me a smooth painting surface? Thanks
 
Plasterboard is not used where there is water ie near bath, shower and hand basin that would be hardie backer board you could use plasterboard on the rest of the wall the floor again would be hardie backer etc
 
12.5 mm hardiebacker if brick put on with adhesive on floor with adhesive and screws all joints on hardie backer must be filled with adhesive and covered with bathroom scrim tape there must be small expansion gaps left on floor hardie backer board ...hope that answers you question
 
So you don't think it's worth the extra for the MR board?
If you’re having a wet room then hardie backer as dj said and tile straight over. Belt an braces and the boards not a massive cost.

All I’m saying is in standard bathrooms half the time all these new fangled boards aren’t really necessary
 
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He's left it to me to order what I want
Trust me if you don’t use hardie or something similar and the tiles fall off then you try to sue him you would not win.,,try the Tiler’s forum if you like a good tiler would never tile on plasterboard ....enough said .,..its your choice
 
The bathroom is not a wet room. It will have a shower and bathtub. I don't want to make things complicated by asking the builder to use different boards in different places. This is why I felt using MR allover would be easier.
 
Trust me if you don’t use hardie or something similar and the tiles fall off then you try to sue him you would not when ..,,try the Tiler’s forum if you like a good tiler would never tile on plasterboard ....enough said .,..its your choice

Tiled my Bathroom all walls 4 years ago onto board n all solid just sayin
 
The bathroom is not a wet room. It will have a shower and bathtub. I don't want to make things complicated by asking the builder to use different boards in different places. This is why I felt using MR allover would be easier.

Just use the mr board. No matter what anyone tells you, you’re gonna stress about it so extra few quid and you win
 
Trust me if you don’t use hardie or something similar and the tiles fall off then you try to sue him you would not when ..,,try the Tiler’s forum if you like a good tiler would never tile on plasterboard ....enough said .,..its your choice
He's not mentioned any specialist boards. Just the standard 12.5mm and MR board. Are these really not up to the job??
 
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