I'm thinking of remodelling my 1950s era bathroom and was looking for
some advice. All 4 walls are tiled 3/4 of the way, with drywall making
up the balance. Behind the tile is some sort of (concrete?) backerboard
.. Being somewhat lazy, I was wondering If I could just use Liquid Nails
to put up some Wainscoting panels directly onto the existing wall tile.
Barring that, do I need to demolish both the tile and the original
backerboard or can I just stop with the wall tile? If I need to
demolish all of it, I might as well put up new drywall in the entire
room, but doing that would make this a bigger remodelling effort
than I care to take on.

Thanks for your advice folks.

Happy Holidays
Mitch

3rd eye wrote:
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:06:07 -0600, Mitch wrote:


I'm thinking of remodelling my 1950s era bathroom and was looking for
some advice. All 4 walls are tiled 3/4 of the way, with drywall making
up the balance. Behind the tile is some sort of (concrete?) backerboard
. Being somewhat lazy, I was wondering If I could just use Liquid Nails
to put up some Wainscoting panels directly onto the existing wall tile.


Of course you could.


Barring that, do I need to demolish both the tile and the original
backerboard or can I just stop with the wall tile? If I need to
demolish all of it, I might as well put up new drywall in the entire
room, but doing that would make this a bigger remodelling effort
than I care to take on.

Thanks for your advice folks.

Happy Holidays
Mitch


If you take the tile off, plan on taking it down to bare studs &
re-rocking.
Thanks for the feedback. Any caveats or tips you care to share about
putting panelling directly over tile (surface prep, type of adhesive
etc) would be much appreciated!