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I am planning to install wainscoting on the lower half (42") of my bathroom walls. The bathroom will be gutted to the studs. I am using a 1/2 x 4" tongue & groove wainscoting, with a baseboard, baseboard cap & shoe (installed over the wainscoting, as if it was wallboard). I will also use a chair rail at the top.
Here's my dilemma. I am using 1/2" greenboard above the wainscoting, and the tub stall is being tiled. I need the tile to go over the wall & wainscoting just outside the shower (with bullnose), so I need the entire wall to be in the same plane (the back wall of the tub stall is in the same plane as the back wall of the bathroom). I am planning on attaching the wainscoting directly to the studs (with header boards between the studs). This way the wainscoting is not on top of the greenboard (I believe that this is the way that this was done in old homes, in fact, I found evidence of it in my kitchen when I opened up a wall).
Does this sound OK? Should I let the boards "float", or should I glue the tongue & groove? I am planning on sealing all surfaces of all wood.
Here's my dilemma. I am using 1/2" greenboard above the wainscoting, and the tub stall is being tiled. I need the tile to go over the wall & wainscoting just outside the shower (with bullnose), so I need the entire wall to be in the same plane (the back wall of the tub stall is in the same plane as the back wall of the bathroom). I am planning on attaching the wainscoting directly to the studs (with header boards between the studs). This way the wainscoting is not on top of the greenboard (I believe that this is the way that this was done in old homes, in fact, I found evidence of it in my kitchen when I opened up a wall).
Does this sound OK? Should I let the boards "float", or should I glue the tongue & groove? I am planning on sealing all surfaces of all wood.
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