Monday, January 25, 2010

How To Renovate A Fireplace Can I Tile Over A Textured Walls?

Can I tile over a textured walls? - how to renovate a fireplace

My current sheetrocked fireplace and has a textured surface. (More gray walls that are an orange peel, click Finish.) I want to renew the goal fireplace with slate tiles and a new home.

I use the tiles on the wall with texture? If yes, what was the intention of thinset to use a painted wall? Or should I remove and replace the plaster or thin wall first to get rid of the texture?

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  1. Ok, back on track. First, no reason to remove drywall. Best way is to remove the contact points on the texture with a hand sander and sandpaper 80 or screen, full of sand, just about all the bad points higher if all will delete these choke your career Their fur a lot. Surface vacuum cleaning fluid after sanding cloth or tactical use painter. Take note should be freed from hard materials and debris and mix with a little water. A good paint mixing drill a hard paddle ($ 4) make the material easy to process. Mix mud for about 3 cm, especially when the mud is very nice to ask if it is not as fluid flow, if that happens, bring more mud less than 3 inches and remix by making it thicker, wants to be like peanut butter . Only one coat to fill in some gaps that should not completely all the little holes to fill, no major clean lines. At the tail on the expertise of the region and who recommend the most appropriate type and size of the tiles. God, I know it's a long explanation, but sometimes their bis to cover all bases. You can e-mail if you have any problems. Jerry 30 years contractor.

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  2. You can paint the texture of the drywall and then. You can, however, some difficulty, the pictures are to stay, if the wall is greasy, dirty or too bright. Clean the first table with something like TSP (tri-sodium phosphate) to store in one color or the Department of Painting at Walmart or your paint store found.

    If the wall is uneven texture, may have trouble finding the same tiles. Try to scrape the bare wall, to respect, but careful not to damage the drywall. You can also just browse the coverage of the existing drywall, sand smooth.

    Use the premixed thinset. This should stick pretty well.

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  3. It can be placed directly on a textured wall. Use a strong glue stick tile.

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