Drywall Or Cement Board Around Fireplace

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Drywall or cement board around fireplace.

Homes with outdated brick fireplaces can be brought up to date with a new tile fireplace surround. Cement board is notorious for cracking its very hard to finish simply with mud. We had a plan of attack. It might make sense to use concrete board then a sheet of 5 8 fire resistant drywall on top of the concrete board.

Instead it was designed to be a subfloor or backing material for another material installed on top of it. The board scratches real easy and if you are good with a spackle knife you could easily mud all the imperfections in the board sand primer and then paint. Hardiebacker board is not designed to take the place of stone drywall or other materials used near or on your fireplace. Cement board is pretty rigid and has pitting little holes in the board.

Add cement board to the entire area you ll be tiling for us that means the floor and all 4 sides of the fireplace leaving room for wood mantle. Around a fireplace you can use hardiebacker board to prepare an area for tile installation either stone or ceramic. Almost like a stucco. Im doing a stucco application this weekend around a fireplace and im very excited to start it.

Password please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members it s free and quick. But thats what we do with stucco. An old fireplace can be an eyesore. But on the metal surround use high heat adhesive to attach the cement boards.

Before the tile can be placed cement board must be installed. Tile around fireplace drywall vs cement board my fireplace paint ceiling user name.