Happy New Year DIY Family,
I'm remodeling our 1955 cape's kitchen. We just had granite counter tops installed and I am going to install a tile back splash(for the first time in my diy career)with 3/4-1" sheet tiles. Previously there was a thin sheet 1/8" of laminate covering the sheet rock attached by glue as the back splash. When I removed the laminate it began to pull the first layer of paper off the sheet rock.
My question is: do I tile directly over the old sheet rock?
or do I put up a thin peice of ply wood over the sheet rock and then adhere the tile to the plywood?
I have 5 electical outlets already set at 3/4" - 1" out
Open to any and all suggestions and thank you in advance!
I'm remodeling our 1955 cape's kitchen. We just had granite counter tops installed and I am going to install a tile back splash(for the first time in my diy career)with 3/4-1" sheet tiles. Previously there was a thin sheet 1/8" of laminate covering the sheet rock attached by glue as the back splash. When I removed the laminate it began to pull the first layer of paper off the sheet rock.
My question is: do I tile directly over the old sheet rock?
or do I put up a thin peice of ply wood over the sheet rock and then adhere the tile to the plywood?
I have 5 electical outlets already set at 3/4" - 1" out
Open to any and all suggestions and thank you in advance!