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Charlie: John from League City writes. He says I’m a long-time listener, first-time writer, and he says he has a bathtub shower, and he’s redoing his surround on it. He wants to know, he’s getting various opinions on whether the backer board should be attached over the existing sheet rock or go directly to the studs. Tom, what’s your advice for John?
Tom: Take the sheetrock out. Backerboard go to the studs, and if you need to double it up for any reason and you might have to, use two layers of backerboard. It’s very simple. You don’t want to have any sheetrock, any paper products back there in that wet area. So that’s what you do-
Charlie: That fine quality Hardie Backer would be the thing.
Tom: Hardie Backer would be good. Comes in a quarter inch and half inch.