On 3/11/2009 3:13 PM SteveBell spake thus:

Cement board is what you want in wet areas. The greenboard was used
there for a while, but it doesn't work much better than plain
wallboard. Use the greenboard in the _rest_ of the bathroom to fight
steamy air, and use cement board in the shower and around the tub.

With cement board, you tape the seams with mortar and fiberglass tape.

But how do you finish the cement board for paint (assuming no tile over
it)? Seems as though that would be even more work than just putting the
stuff up.


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Made From Pears: Pretty good chance that the product is at least
mostly pears.
Made With Pears: Pretty good chance that pears will be detectable in
the product.
Contains Pears: One pear seed per multiple tons of product.

(with apologies to Dorothy L. Sayers)