Do you need backer board for kitchen backsplash.
Do i need backer board for kitchen backsplash.
You have your choice of using a modified.
To answer your question no you don t have to put backerboard up for a tile backsplash.
This is classified as a non wet area and will be fine.
While not considered backer board water resistant drywall can be used in spaces where occasional splashes may occur but which are otherwise dry such as a glass tile backsplash in the kitchen.
This item is suitable to protect the wall behind the stove from any moisture sol oil and grease.
You don t need any thing behind the tile on a back splash other than the painted clean dry wall.
Unlike a shower which is continually soaked by water a backsplash just catches the occasional splurt of some liquid or other.
Our wallboard like yours wasn t in pristine shape.
The high moisture is not a big deal for the people who install backer board on the kitchen backsplash.
If you are useing the traditional 4x4 tiles made from talc powder.
These are very light weight and will.
The tile you put up with the sealer you put over it is more than adequate to deal with that amount of liquid.
Water resistant drywall is less expensive than cement or gypsum backer board but it shouldn t be used in very damp or wet areas.