backerboard
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[edit]backerboard (plural backerboards)
- A board used behind or under other material, often as support.
- (construction, masonry, carpentry) Boards used as underlayment for tile, plaster, or other materials.
- 1962, “A building product for any need”, in National Gypsum Company Annual Report, page 4:
- A tile setter mounts colorful American-Olean ceramic tile on a new gypsum backerboard in a motel bathroom...
- 2000 November 21, Michael Byrne, “Liability and Waterproofing in Ceramic Installations”, in Floor Covering Installer:
- Ceramic tile has a well-deserved reputation as a durable material, but neither tile, nor cement backerboard, nor latex thinset or grout, can be relied upon to provide waterproofing protection.
- 2007 February 25, Tim Carter, “For backer board, cement worth effort”, in The Record, Bergen County, NJ, page R4:
- There are all sorts of different tile backer board products out there. Some are cement-based, some are gypsum-based, and others have a mix of ingredients.
- 2015 February 15, Tim Carter, “If it's gypsum, it's not good backerboard for tile”, in Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, page E8:
- Dear Tim: What you call backerboard might be something entirely different from what I call backerboard. I'm quite concerned that you don't really have a waterproof backerboard since you said it crumbled. Technically, you have a board that is backing up tile, so I guess you can call it backerboard.
- (carpentry, woodworking) A sacrificial board placed behind or under a board being drilled or sawn, so as to prevent blowouts. (Usually scrap ends reused for such purpose.)
- Sheets of cardboard or similar material used to preserve or display books, magazines, art prints, etc.
- 2006 May 6, Angela Rabago-Mussi, “Drawn to comics gets your spidey senses tingling”, in Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, page 10:
- Campos likes this shop not only because it's just a few blocks from his Glendale home but because of the little extras that Brown throws in, like wrapping each comic book with a backer board in a plastic protective sleeve.
- (construction, masonry, carpentry) Boards used as underlayment for tile, plaster, or other materials.