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Installing new soaket tub
Tearing out old bathtub and walls. Wondering if I put the walls back up
first so the tub butts up to the gyprock or put tub against studs put gyp rock down over the bathtub lip with a small gap on bottom to prevent wicking? |
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don &/or Lucille wrote: Tearing out old bathtub and walls. Wondering if I put the walls back up first so the tub butts up to the gyprock or put tub against studs put gyp rock down over the bathtub lip with a small gap on bottom to prevent wicking? Hi, Watching new house going up, they install tub and drywall goes on(the green water resistant one) |
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Yes we are using a water resistant drywall
On May 1, 11:40*am, Tony Hwang wrote: don &/or Lucille wrote: Tearing out old bathtub and walls. Wondering if I put the walls back up first so the tub butts up to the gyprock or put tub against studs put gyp rock down over the bathtub lip with a small gap on bottom to prevent wicking? Hi, Watching new house going up, they install tub and drywall goes on(the green water resistant one) |
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On Sun, 01 May 2011 07:40:31 -0600, Tony Hwang wrote:
don &/or Lucille wrote: Tearing out old bathtub and walls. Wondering if I put the walls back up first so the tub butts up to the gyprock or put tub against studs put gyp rock down over the bathtub lip with a small gap on bottom to prevent wicking? Hi, Watching new house going up, they install tub and drywall goes on(the green water resistant one) Only in lowest-end houses. Drywall has no business being that close to water, even the water resistant kind. |
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Installing new soaket tub
On 5/1/2011 9:40 AM, Tony Hwang wrote:
don &/or Lucille wrote: Tearing out old bathtub and walls. Wondering if I put the walls back up first so the tub butts up to the gyprock or put tub against studs put gyp rock down over the bathtub lip with a small gap on bottom to prevent wicking? Hi, Watching new house going up, they install tub and drywall goes on(the green water resistant one) The green drywall was a mistake they came up with after mud-bed tile jobs became too expensive during the building boom of the 1950s and 60s. (Or they didn't have enough skilled tile-setters to do them.) It is no longer considered good practice, since it is only water resistant, not water proof. Grout always leaks, eventually, as does the water seal where faucet handle penetrates the wall. Most regulars on this group can describe all the mushy green drywall they have ripped from tub enclosures over the years. Use cement backer board on the walls around the tub, and use the green drywall (or better yet, the yellow non-paper stuff), in the rest of the bathroom where it only gets damp, not wet. And yes, tub goes in first, against the bare studs. Use this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to insulate around and under the tub, especially if it butts up to an outside wall. Guys seldom take baths, so we usually don't care, but SWMBO will appreciate the bath water staying warmer longer. -- aem sends... |
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On Sun, 01 May 2011 12:30:19 -0400, aemeijers wrote:
On 5/1/2011 9:40 AM, Tony Hwang wrote: don &/or Lucille wrote: Tearing out old bathtub and walls. Wondering if I put the walls back up first so the tub butts up to the gyprock or put tub against studs put gyp rock down over the bathtub lip with a small gap on bottom to prevent wicking? Hi, Watching new house going up, they install tub and drywall goes on(the green water resistant one) The green drywall was a mistake they came up with after mud-bed tile jobs became too expensive during the building boom of the 1950s and 60s. (Or they didn't have enough skilled tile-setters to do them.) It is no longer considered good practice, since it is only water resistant, not water proof. Grout always leaks, eventually, as does the water seal where faucet handle penetrates the wall. Most regulars on this group can describe all the mushy green drywall they have ripped from tub enclosures over the years. Use cement backer board on the walls around the tub, and use the green drywall (or better yet, the yellow non-paper stuff), in the rest of the bathroom where it only gets damp, not wet. Yep, and it's only done, today, as a low-end corner-cutting measure. Any DIYer doing it is simply nuts. And yes, tub goes in first, against the bare studs. Use this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to insulate around and under the tub, especially if it butts up to an outside wall. Guys seldom take baths, so we usually don't care, but SWMBO will appreciate the bath water staying warmer longer. Quiets the tub, too. Cheap enough. |
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On May 1, 11:38*am, "
wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2011 12:30:19 -0400, aemeijers wrote: On 5/1/2011 9:40 AM, Tony Hwang wrote: don &/or Lucille wrote: Tearing out old bathtub and walls. Wondering if I put the walls back up first so the tub butts up to the gyprock or put tub against studs put gyp rock down over the bathtub lip with a small gap on bottom to prevent wicking? Hi, Watching new house going up, they install tub and drywall goes on(the green water resistant one) The green drywall was a mistake they came up with after mud-bed tile jobs became too expensive during the building boom of the 1950s and 60s. (Or they didn't have enough skilled tile-setters to do them.) It is no longer considered good practice, since it is only water resistant, not water proof. Grout always leaks, eventually, as does the water seal where faucet handle penetrates the wall. Most regulars on this group can describe all the mushy green drywall they have ripped from tub enclosures over the years. Use cement backer board on the walls around the tub, and use the green drywall (or better yet, the yellow non-paper stuff), in the rest of the bathroom where it only gets damp, not wet. Yep, and it's only done, today, as a low-end corner-cutting measure. *Any DIYer doing it is simply nuts. And yes, tub goes in first, against the bare studs. Use this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to insulate around and under the tub, especially if it butts up to an outside wall. Guys seldom take baths, so we usually don't care, but SWMBO will appreciate the bath water staying warmer longer. Quiets the tub, too. *Cheap enough.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - If you are putting a fiberglass tub put sand under it |
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