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Posted by RicodJour on August 15, 2008, 7:29 pm
> 10 years ago I re-did my bathroom shower. I re-sheet rocked it with cemen=
t
> board, then tiled it. My plumber at the time got me some sort of joint
> compound that was I think acrylic based. I am re-doing another bathroom a=
nd
> am no longer in contact with that plumber. Does anyone have any idea what=
to
> use to fill in the joints of the cement board.
You shouldn't use joint compound. A typical installation would embed
the mesh tape in latex-modified thinset and then set the tile in the
same stuff. Some would coat all of the walls in a brush-on
waterproofing like Redguard.
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