Tile Backer In A Bath Room And Kitchen

 
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Old 11-28-2008, 10:00 AM   #1
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Tile Backer In A Bath Room And Kitchen


hello all, carpenter here renovating his own house. On all our jobs at work we have always used cement board as our tile backer and green board as the rock of choice in our baths. I'm ready to do my kitchen floor and baths, both going to have ceramic tile on the floors and bath 1/3 up the wall. I just wanted any suggestions or feedback on the other products out there being that our company has never used them. I see a lot of people talking about denssheild and densarmor. I'll be doing tile on the bathroom walls about 1/3 the way up and then painted walls, and tile on the bath floors and tile on the kitchen floors. Thanks all

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Old 11-28-2008, 10:29 AM   #2
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for tile use densheild or hardi board, but hardi board is a lot harder to cut if you do not have the correcet tools, denshield is what we use, and its made for that application. Green board is no longer recommended for wet areas, so dont use it.
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i use hardi board everywhere where tile is .i hate durock. In bathrooms i use blueboard with a plaster slick coat on it.
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denshield is the way for me. and I would suggest not stopping in the baths at 1/3-go to the ceiling. and put a backsplash in your kitchen.
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hardi on the walls, ditra on the floors.
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Always Hardibacker for me.
The sheers I use to cut it was one of the best tools I ever bought.
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What shears are you using?



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For all of you who use Densshield, is it waterproof? what about when you screw it down?

Just wondering. My supplier no longer carries cement board and delivered densshield to me this morning.
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I wouldn't do anything beyond regular ole green board drywall for backer behind tile wainscotting in a bathroom. As long as the tile isn't going in a wet area that's all it needs. Doing more wouldn't be wrong, just like doubling up all the 2x4s in your walls wouldn't be wrong if you wanted to do it, but it isn't needed either. We would allow mastic behind that tile too.
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