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Posted by dadiOH on August 21, 2005, 9:29 pm
~blue~ wrote:
> We gutted our bathroom last year and were incorrectly told by a
> contractor that we could tile over the green drywall for our tub
> surround. Lucky we found out this was a bad idea BEFORE we tiled.
> Instead we put up
> Barker tile (http://www.barker.ca). Now, a year later, I HATE the
> stuff. I tiled a small sink backsplash yesterday and it looks SUPER
> and I'd like
> to do the same tile for our tub surround. Here's the problem, ripping
> out all the drywall in the bathroom and redoing the entire thing again
> with cement backer board is NOT an option. I have 2 ideas and I'd
> like to
> know if either will work. If they are both bad ideas, then we'll suck
> it
> up and suffer with the Barker tile until we can redo the bathroom
> again.
> My ideas are:
> 1. rip off the Barker tile and cut out the drywall in the tub surround
> area (basically chop out a 5 foot high section around the tub). Then
> replace the chopped out sections with cement backer board (or whatever
> surface is suitable for tiling). Main problem with this is, not sure
> how I'll connect the cement board to the drywall around the edges.
Tape and mud. And/or tile over the joint.
BTW, no reason you couldn't have tiled over the greenboard. Cement
board is better (no rot) but...
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