But which comes first?Ĭan I go ahead and install the backerboard and tile while waiting for the counters?ĭo I need to wait for the counters to go in before I install the backerboard and tile?ĭo I install the backerboard now, then the counters go in, and then I do the tile? We are having Silestone counters put in (about two weeks from measure to install), and I will be installing a tile back splash. Our new kitchen cabinets come in this weekend :cheshire: so I am thinking ahead to the next step.

I will be thoroughly waterproof sealing the finished tiles and grouting upon completion. No mention of any vapour barrier needed, and I never thought about it until I read the preceeding post. I explained that I had bare studs on the bath ends now and a masonry block wall, and he recommended 1/2' tilebacker board for the ends and 1/4' tilebacker board for the long wall. When I was at our local big-box store and talking to the sales guy in the tiling area, he never mentioned anything about needing a vapour barrier. These were professionally built townhouses built in mid-1970s, approx 90 units in the complex all built at one time, so I'm assuming that this process was used in all the units.Īnyway, fast forward 30-something yrs to today. Doesn't look like any thinset used at all, and no vapour barrier at all. On the ends of the tub (handles/tub spout/diverter/shower rose at one end, blank wall except for a towel rail at the other end), the tiling was glued onto plasterboard. No sign of any kind of vapour barrier seen. When I tore off the old 70's tiling that was surrounding the tub, the long wall (5 ft face) had tiles that were mortared to a white plaster-ish looking coat approx 1/8' thick (not a board, but some kind of plaster mixture applied to the masonry block wall). Bathtub substrates :ends were sheetrock, main 5ft wall is a masonry block party wall with our neighbour. I'm about halfway through renovating our #2 bathroom - gutted it except for the bathtub. Looking at that last post has me very worried now.

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