Re: Replaceing Gypsum board
Posted: August 5th, 2020, 6:02 am
We worked with this a lot, using it in (at least) a couple hundred bathrooms. We did not use any power tools to cut it. We had carbide scoring tools, but I believe they also sell carbide blades for utility knives that could work. If you don't need to be super precise, I would score and snap like you would drywall. It breaks a lot harder, and I'm making it sound simpler than it is, but I wouldn't put all that silica dust in the air if I could avoid it. We once scored and snapped with regular utility knife blades out of desperation (just made several passes). With sheetrock you can give it a snap to break it and then cut the paper on the other side, but that won't work for backer board. We used whatever was handy to lift both ends of the score a couple/few inches off the ground and snapped from both ends simultaneously.
It worked for us and just wanted to share my experience. Maybe RJ has had different luck or used different tactics, but this was how we did it.
It worked for us and just wanted to share my experience. Maybe RJ has had different luck or used different tactics, but this was how we did it.