I'm doing a bathroom remodel and want to tile the entire bathroom (not just the bath/wet area) floor to ceiling.
My contractor used concrete board in the bath area (which sounds good), but used blueboard in the non-bath area. He says the blueboard should be good enough for tiling from floor to ceiling, even with heavy porcelain tile. Is this true? Would you recommend just using concrete board throughout?
Best Answer
Tile will hold up fine on the blue board / green board in areas that are not wet. in the 50's it was common to install tile on regular sheetrock in bath / shower areas. I saw many jobs that lasted 20-30 years before the sheetrock failed in wet areas but in dry areas it last longer (than wet areas)and is less expensive to install.