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Do you cover pipes in a wall with plastering or tile adhesive?
Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.15 PM
I booked a builder who sent me a quotation for repiping the sink taps into the wall vertically and the bath waste into the wall horizontally. He included plastering the pipes into the wall. The pipes have been repiped into the all but he niw says better not to plaster but to use tile adhesive to fill the holes to allow the pipes to move. Is this correct advice or is he cutting corners? The wall is due to be tiled but I thought big holes were best plastered or plasterboarded and skimmed, not filled with tile adhesive?
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White Interiors
Rating: 5 out of 5
Any holes chased out for hidden pipe work is filled with bonding before any tiles are used on the surface of the wall.
If tile adhesive is used in a hole too big then this will not dry properly.
Answered30 August 2015
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Anonymous user
If the pipes have to go into the wall, then they should be protected with Denso tape.
Plumbrite123
Answered4 April 2017
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