{"id":25,"date":"2012-03-01T20:40:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T04:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2012-03-30T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:53:19","slug":"backerboard-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Backerboard Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe that selecting backerboard could be so hard. I ended up with three finalists: Wonderboard, Durock, and Hardiebacker.<\/p>\n

In a survey of Home Depot employees, the inter-webs, and people I know, Durock was the clear loser. Most people were evenly split between Wonderboard and Hardiebacker. In the end, I am going with Hardiebacker, mainly because that’s what my cousin suggested. Also, you can get it with a grid embedded on the surface to make it easier to line up tile, assuming that it’s level.<\/p>\n

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Wonderboard - notice that it looks like concrete.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hardiebacker 500 (Actually 420)<\/p><\/div>\n

Now that I’ve got that out of the way, it was pretty easy to find 1-1\/4 inch corrosion resistant screws. \u00a0Not sure if the spelling error is intentional or not due to trademark infringement (look carefully, the name is missing an “e”).<\/p>\n

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I can’t believe that selecting backerboard could be so hard. I ended up with three finalists: Wonderboard, Durock, and Hardiebacker. In a survey of Home Depot employees, the inter-webs, and people I know, Durock was the clear loser. Most people … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement-2","tag-bathroom-remodel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}