so you use concrete board, wonder board, handi board in the shower. If the shower tile only comes to a certain height, how do you finish the top. most board do not have a good finish on them. Can you carry the tile to the ceiling/
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Run your board a couple of inches just below the top of the highest tile. Usually the bull nose. Then contine with your rock to ceiling. When you install the tile your bull nose will be overlapping the seam of the cbu and rock. Now you have a smooth surface above the tile to paint/paper.
If you are tiling to ceiling just install your board of choice up to the ceiling and tile away.
You can....but its not necessary. I try and avoid that on older homes...the ceilings aren`t usually all too level, and that really looks like crap when you bring the tile up close.
Often times I run the wonder board just short of where I plan to end my tile. Lets say the tile is gonna cap off at 5' 6".....I`ll run the backer board up to 5' 4", and use green rock for the rest.
If I`m unsure of the finished tile height at time of cement baord installation, I`ll run it to the ceiling and smoothcoat the exposed portion after tile goes in.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
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I am also facing the same situation. My plan was run the cement board all the way to the ceiling, and apply a skim coat of plaster above the top row of tiles (from 6 ft above the shower floor to the 8 ft ceiling). Is that what you mean by "smoothcoat"?
Also, my plastering skills are not great, and would prefer to use drywall compound so that I can sand it smooth as necessary. Would regular compound be OK in such a moist environment? I plan on painting with alkyd oil paint.
Thanks.
Allen
I always do what Allen says.
I run the cbu right to the ceiling and skim coat beyond the tile then paint but most of the time I run my tile right to the ceiling.
I haven't found too many ceilings that were so out of wack that it makes the tile look crooked.
I'm about to tile with tumbled marble a large shower stall with a seat in it that I just finished building....I plan to go right up to the ceiling
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ydna
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Andy, so you would just use regular drywall compound directly on the cement backer board?
I'm stopping the tile at 6 feet because I like that look ... with a decorative cap-moulding tile for the top course. But this 3 x 6 shower is going into a former closet space in an 1830s house ... I think I would probably have some problems if I went all the way to the ceiling, although the house is remarkably square and level, given its age.
Allen
Edited 1/29/2005 2:07 am ET by Allen
I've used spackle with good results as long as its primed and painted with good paint.
I've also used thinset instead of spackle which I find even better but you better be a good mudder cause you ain't sanding it to easily.
The reason I started using thinset was because I thinset all the seams on the cbu...so I just kept going.
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When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you
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Ya know ... thinset sands alot better than I'da thunk!
Found out by mistake one time ...
haven't looked back since ...
a nice "topper" for thinset ... is 20 min Easy Sand .....
blends ... feathers ... and paints up great.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
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The secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!
When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Good info. Thanks.