Can I use only the green sheetrock for my bathroom tile?

Question

Sorry I don't know the name of the "green" sheetrock. I was told at home depot that we only needed to use the green sheetrock on the shower walls. Now I'm looking on line and it says I need to use a cement board to make it really water resistant. Help! What do I need to put behind my bathroom tiles?

Answer 1

Don't listen to the guys at HD they usually don't know what there talking about
You need to use cement board, one product I've used is Hardy-Backer, I bought it at HD
You can apply(SCREW) the cement board directly to the studs or right over the existing sheetrock(remember to still screw through sheetrock and directly into the studs

Answer 2

the green sheetrock or the concrete wonderboards should be used around a wet area like a tub. The rest of the room would be fine to use regular sheetrock. Behind tiles it is required by the manufacturer to use the cement board. It also allows the tile adheavise a better stick to use the cement board. I will say the cement board is a pain to cut espically around corners and any small areas.

Answer 3

Green Sheetrock

Answer 4

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Can I use only the green sheetrock for my bathroom tile?
Sorry I don't know the name of the "green" sheetrock. I was told at home depot that we only needed to use the green sheetrock on the shower walls. Now I'm looking on line and it says I need to use a cement board to make it really water resistant. Help! What do I need to put behind...

Answer 5

Greenboard, or MR(for "moisture-resistant") board is what you should use, except around the tub or shower. Regular sheetrock will deteriorate, over time, when exposed to moisture. The steam from hot showers doesn't all go out the vent. Doing a bath room takes a lot of time and money. You want the new walls to last as long as possible.

Answer 6

Without reading any other answers, your online advise is the most advisable way to proceed. I've probably remodeled more bathrooms than anything else and now the only area I use greenboard on is anything NOT in close proximety to water.
I use concrete backer board exclusively, and have never had a negative result. I've also installed thousands of sq. ft. of tile, and backerboard works well elsewhere too.
Take the online search advise.

Steven Wolf

Answer 7

You'll be much better off removing the old wallboard laying new tile on that old surface is a problem waiting to happen. Use a cement backer board like "hardi backer" under your tile. Tiles in a shower should not be laid in mastic, they should be laid into an adhesive mortar bed and then grouted using an epoxy grout. Sorry for the bad news.

Answer 8

Green-board is a waterproof board. He's right, you do need it, but its not for shower walls, it should be on all the other walls around your bathroom. Regular dry wall is just paper and gypsum, which falls apart if it gets wet. Cement board, of course, has cement instead of gypsum in the middle. If possible use cement board around your shower, but installing greenboard instead is much easier if you are a DIY-er. Cement would make it more water proof, but there are ways of installing green board properly. I've redone all my bathrooms, and I used green board, and my showers haven't failed yet. It's only been 5 years, though, so only time will tell.

Answer 9

Use a glass reinforced cement board, screwed to studwork at 6" intervals. The screws used should be ones specifically made for securing GRC. There is a board made by a company called Knauf which, I believe, exports their product to the US. Make sure to use a PVA sealer on the surface, before tiling as GRC is quite dusty.

Answer 10

green board is used only when youre painting if youre using tile just lay the cement board over the breen board its double safety theyre is no harm in doing this. i have hung sheetrock for 20 yrs.