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Originally Posted by Rochey6957
looks nice! what type of products did you use? Redguard on plywood and framing, then tile board, and a flexible grout/mortar are what i have heard should be used.
Those small tiles make sense so they arent as likely to crack.
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I chose the small tiles because they were inexpensive and since they are 1/8” thick, some of the lightest.
The walls are overbuilt. I was worried about flex. I probably could have used less. I used 1/8” thick 1 1/4” steel tubing plus 1 1/4” square Douglas fir for the “studs”.
For the exterior side I used 1/2” plywood. For the inside, the tile substrate, I used a foam core tile backer called HydroBlock. The advantage of that stuff, aside from being lighter than cement board, it uses less fasteners with big washers that won’t pull through the board from vibration.
I used flexibond thinset and urethane grout to install the tile.