Hardibacker cement board for showers - feedback

[RogerS]

If you are thinking of using this stuff in your shower because their YouTube video shows how easy it is to simply score and snap.....unlike their competitors who use fibre-glass or similar as strengthening material inside and so necessitating much slashing with a Stanley knife to cut the boards.....which Hardibacker go to great pains to point out.

Then think again. In the video they are using 6mm Hardibacker but for walls you use 12mm. So you go out and buy their special scoring knife (because it lasts longer, sir, and is so.o.o much better) and follow the instructions and try to snap the board....and try again....and again....make a few more scores. By now you have scored about 2mm. You try again to snap. Your veins bulge like Arnold Schwarzenegger. You try standing on it. You try putting a piece of timber underneath the score line. You start to think about driving the Discovery over it to snap it.

Then you come to your senses and get out the angle grinder. Which will work perfectly well with the competition's products and which are much cheaper to boot.

So...my advice is give Hardibacker a miss - at least for walls.

 

[AndyT]

Thanks Roger

I nearly bought a cement based board when we retiled our bathroom a few years ago. Fortunately the tile shop stocked a lightweight insulating board which I bought instead. As well as being easy to cut it was MUCH easier to handle and fix in position. (Sorry but I can't recall the brand name. )

So to anyone else, follow Roger's advice.

 

[markturner]

Plus one on that.....pain in pineapple to fit, we always use Wedi panels... http://www.wedi.co.uk/building-material ... terior.php