I got such great answers to my tile spacing question, I thought I’d ask another:
What’s the conventional wisdom on tiling a shower against a sheetrock backer? I’ve durocked most of the shower/tub enclosure I plan to tile, but on one side, the tile will end right in the middle of a stud bay. As a result, I sheetrocked into the shower area, rather than durock’ing into the exposed wall area, but I wonder if tile mortar will stick well to primed and painted sheetrock.
Should I cut out some of the sheetrock and patch in a piece of durock to get as close to the edge of the tile as possible, or is it not worth worrying about?
Thx for the feedback, all!
Rob Kutner
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Yes the tile will hold on to the sheetrock, if its 4x4's anything larger gets heavy. Now why not take the extra time and put durarock down? Build it to last a lifetime.
Yeah, good point. I'll patch in some durock; no point in putting in this much work for a crappy job.
Thx,
Rob
Tile might hold to the SR but the SR will disolve from behind the tile in a shower..
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When ever Ive run into the problem of tile running into the middle of two studs I cut the drywall about 3/4 to an inch back from the edge of tile, so the drywall extends back under the tile a little, just to make sure I do not end up with cement board sticking out, then since the wall is open its easy to put in a 2x4 to use as a nailer, fasten half of it to the drywall and 1/2 to the cement board, its ideal to run the 2x4 from the bottom plate all the way to top, one more tip run the 2x4 with the wide portion facing the drywall, the opposite of how you would actually frame a wall, it gives a larger area to fasten too.
Right on CAG, that's what I was thinking of doing. Thanks for confirming my suspicion!
Rob
Glad I could be of help, I know they say you can mount tile to dw, but the thought of cracking grout letting water behind and ruining the dw always makes me cringe, but then again, I guess it would be job security
Well, no job security for me! This is my house, for me and my wife, so if stuff starts leaking, no sleep for me until it stops!
lol come on you know in 5 years your going to want to remodel that bathroom again, once your done with everything else you have planned, you can never be complety done with your own house, its a rule or something.
Side point : has anyone else ever noticed in their homes or other builder/caprenters homes that things never seem to be completly finished, the one thing I notice more then any other in a lot of carpenter's homes is nail holes never seem to be all filled, little stuff like that, the stuff you hate doing so it keeps getting pushed back to tomorrow until finaly tomorrow is 2 years later and you dont even notice it yourself anymore, or maybe I just know lazy people.
When dealing with the transition between a shower there should be blocking to accept a door or rod. Do you have this?
Not yet, but I can block in a 2x6 or 8 flat for the transition from rock to durock, and that should serve OK for the door backing.