We're installing villaboard into our bathroom. Villaboard's the perfect product for the bathroom
area. It's great for wet areas, it's a pre-finished product. easy to use, easy to install. The
tools required to install the villaboard, straight edge to mark your lines, your cutter
to cut the sheeting, tin snips to cut the corners, safety equipment such as gloves and
goggles, a hammer, a pencil which is nice and sharp, probably cement sheeting nails,
and obviously a tape measure.
Our first step when starting the bathroom is straightening the walls. These walls have
been straightened. Any high points have been taken out, and the walls are the appropriate
thickness as required by the regulations. Our next step is to mark our lines. The boards
are 1200 wide so we're going to mark 1200 down from the top. We'll mark this at various
intervals so we've got a reference point across the whole wall. This wall's longer than the
sheet that we have so it means we have to join two sheets, and when we join two sheets
together we always join it in the middle of a stud.
Okay, from the leading edge here which is the front edge, and we'll take it all the
way down to where we get to where 2700 is. The closest stud is here, and we always take
it to the middle of the stud. So we mark the middle so that's set to go for when we join
the other piece on. A handy hint when placing any sheet work above the ground is to mark
below the line of where the width of the board is about 10 mil or one centimeter and place
a nail there. That way you can rest your board on the nail whilst you're ready to fasten.
So our next step now is to place the board up onto the wall. It's too heavy for one person
so I got my mate Jason here who'll give me a hand and will put it up. So what we're gonna
do here now is take it off the resting nails and push it up and then we're gonna to put
a nail into each stud. Now that we have the board tacked in, we're going to now apply
nails every 200 mil up each stud. We won't apply any adhesive at all. Adhesive in a bathroom
situation, especially when you're placing tiles on, won't be strong enough to hold the
board on. Make sure your nails are flush with the surface so when we're doing our tiling
and so forth there won't be any nails protruding upwards.
The next step in the process is to put an angle into the back corner. That's where we'll
have two sheets meeting each other at right angles. We just need a hard backing behind
that so when we actually silicone joints there will be behind to hold it together. We use
the same clouts as we've done in the sheeting, on this corner as well, and the same spacing
of two 200 mil. We've still got a small section above here to fill in, so we'll measure that
and we'll cut another piece and hammer that in as well. Now that we've marked we've got
our gloves on, because metal being metal it's quite sharp. So we'll just cut that out. There
we have it.
That's the last nail in. Now we're ready to go for the next sheet. The fixing of this
board is the same as the previous board. So now that our second sheet's on, we're now
going to measure and then cut for the extra piece in the side. We're measuring from the
middle of the stud which we fasten the other sheet onto, out to the end of the other stud.
We'll now transfer those numbers onto the sheet. Using our straight edge we'll draw
a line. Now that we've marked it, we've going to use our fibro-cement cutter to cut the
sheeting. It's always good to have somebody else to give you a hand to do this, They can
hold the board whilst you're doing the cutting. Now that we've cut that piece off, we'll mount
it to the wall.
We've almost come to the end of our job. We've got one more sheet to put in, and that's around
where the bath's going to go. So we're actually going to measure and cut out the holes for
the bath fittings. We'll just transfer this information onto the sheet here. So we now
mark where we're going to cut our holes for the plumbing. So using our hammer place my
hand behind and we're just going to knock it out. All right. So what we're going to
do now is put that in place and see how it fits, and make any adjustments that we need
to make. So that's now in place. We'll just nail it up.
So that's how we hang villaboard. Don't forget to check our other videos, to finish off the
job for taping and stopping of the villaboard.