I’m planning on using a moisture resistant drywall on my kitchen wall where the sink is. Above the wall is a soffit. Should the soffit be MRD as well? I’m thinking regular drywall, but just want to be sure.
Also, I’m going to have a tile backsplash and was thinking I’d put a strip of backer board on the wall slightly below the height of the backsplash. What would be the best way to tape that joint? I’m thinking mesh and thinset.
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Regular dw on the soffit. DensArmor Plus or the like is sufficient for a backsplash-
I don't understand the backerboard below the backsplash idea, at all.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevski
Backerboard to apply the tile backsplash to. Hold it down so the joint is concealed below the top of the tile. Just wondering. I suppose I could just put the tile on the drywall. I just thought cement backerboard would be better. Just not sure how to treat the joint where it transitions from cement board to drywall. Like in a bathroom, for example, where a tiled tub surround ends and drywall begins. Thanks
Just use a paperless dywall as a transition strip between cement board and regular drywall. Treat it with regular joint compound. You can use yellowboard as a substrate for tile, but it isn't recommended. Have you thought about a pre-fab tub surround?
prefab won't work for me in this situation. It's no big deal for me to tile. Just wasn't sure about how that joint should be dealt with. I kind of figured I'd hold the joint back from where I wanted the tile to end. That way the bullnose tiles would lap by onto the drywall a little bit thereby hiding the joint. But, do you tape the joint w/ mesh and thinset, paper tape and mud, or no tape and maybe some caulk?
"I kind of figured I'd hold the joint back from where I wanted the tile to end. That way the bullnose tiles would lap by onto the drywall a little bit thereby hiding the joint."Thinset and tile mesh as you tile if you insist on cement board.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
There's no need to use backer board for a kitchen backsplash. You can use ordinary drywall or MR drywall.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. --Rollo May
I think the moisture resistant drywall is meant more for moist environments like bathrooms or basements. Neither drywall will hold up to actually getting wet.
Since your kitchen shouldn't really be a moist environment, you should be fine with regular drywall.
I also don't know the intended purpose of the backer board.
DensArmor also makes a tile backer board.
What Dan said...