Question about home repairs

Since y'all are all the time showing pics of work y'all are doing to your houses I have decided to try and redo a bathroom in our house. I was given a house that is an older house with lots of repairs to be done. I am fixing to try and do the bathroom myself but I have a question for y'all. I have enough tile left over from a floor to tile up around a shower but the people living here before just used a shower that only half way up had some kind of water proof board and the top half of the dry wall is peeling a little. What kind of board do I need to buy to hang over this wall before I lay my tile? Attachment 130565

Water proof sheet rock. It is blue instead of the usual white. Just googled after I posted. Google says wonderboard is better than the sheetrock for tile. Also said the waterproof sheetrock was green. I suppose google can be wrong from time to time:biggrin Good luck with the project.

When laying tile on a surface other than concrete, you use a cement backer board.

Would that be okay to just board up over the dry wall or would I need to rear it out?

Backer board

The stuff on the lower part of the wall is and old material called Marlite. Tear it off then plumb or shim up the wall where you tear it out if it has to be shimmed. Then as Feelay stated always put up a some type of concrete backer. Hardy makes a thinner concrete backer that is easy to handle and works well in this application. Then put a waterproofer on it. They make one that is in a gallon bucket and you just roll it over the backer like paint. It is a little pricey but I would never do a shower wall or floor without it. When it dries it is just like a solid sheet of rubber. Take a brush and really poke it in all your seams real good. May be a little work to this but if you take these steps you will enjoy your ceramic shower a wholeee lot longer. Just my opinion.

Gdg have you ever used something I saw in lowes that was tile board. It was different patterns of tile like on a drywall board. It came in 4x 8 sheets and was supposedly water proof if you glued it up there. Might go that route if you think it's good stuff

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Originally Posted by Rebelfan

Gdg have you ever used something I saw in lowes that was tile board. It was different patterns of tile like on a drywall board. It came in 4x 8 sheets and was supposedly water proof if you glued it up there. Might go that route if you think it's good stuff

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I have never personally used it but I have looked at it. I would not go with anything under 3/8 of an inch thick. The hardy backer is really good stuff for putting on walls. Just be sure that if you cut it or any other type of crete board with a power saw to be sure and wear a mask man, the dust that you will generate is not a good thing to inhale.

Ok I don't know anybody that has used that tile board either but if it would have worked I was just thinking it would have been easier to just glue up and be done

This is what I always use on walls for cramic tile Rebel Fan.
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Once I tear that Marlite you called it off is it okay to screw that concrete board onto the drywall? Or does it need to be torn out ?

Go right over the drywall with it Rebel fan. If there is no drywall behind the marlite just shim out the studs to same thickness as the drywall on the top so it will all be nice and even and flush.

Ok thanks ill prob have a few more questions before its finished lol

NP at all . Just pm me if you need to. I dont look during the day cause I am working but will check in the evenings when I get home.

go tear it out to the studs, just make sure you leave the hardibacker board 1/2" short of the top of where you want tile to stop.... in other words figure out where the top edge of bullnose or trim tile will stop heighth wise and have sheetrock above it .... paint the waterproofing membrane all the way to the ceiling and the ceiling too if you don't have a fartfan in there to pull moisture out. this stuff will paint over well. another trick is go to hobby lobby and buy some medium density backing material which is used for placing in corners and to bridge the seams in the hardibacker board- as it comes in 3x5 sheets... paint it on with waterproofing (aquaban) what its called and you wont ever have leaks !! the seam stuff at h-depot or lowes is very expensive ..... as with GDG pm me for details also

Hey Joe, one of the s water proofers I used came with the fiber tape for the seams. Cant remember the name but will do some checking tomorrow

laticrete brand is best blue/green,,,,lowes...........red from home depot almost as good !! neither I have bought came with the tape. that junk is hiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhggh fixing to do another tub surround and you can buy the stuff at any fabric store by the yard and rip it down to whatever size you like !! if you talk real nice and ask about their garden or if they make quilt's and such and so-forth them blue hairs will rip it down for ya on the cutting table at no-charge :biggrin

The stuff I bought that came with the tape was black. The last I used was a little less expensive but went on red and dryed out kinda pank, lol. It did not come with the tape.

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I have never personally used it but I have looked at it. I would not go with anything under 3/8 of an inch thick. The hardy backer is really good stuff for putting on walls. Just be sure that if you cut it or any other type of crete board with a power saw to be sure and wear a mask man, the dust that you will generate is not a good thing to inhale.

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I would also recommend having someone there holding a shopvac wand to suck up as much dust as possible while sawing any of these materials.