GREENE-BOARD any one used it ?

[Thespanishtiler]

probably one for the Americans/Canadians to answer.

is it a vable alternative to Hardie backer ?

cheers spanish

 

[DHTiling]

Link...??

 

[Thespanishtiler]

sorry dave putting up a link is beyond me but if you google greene-board it will come up

 

[White Room]

This stuff GREENEBOARD

 

[Rob Z]

Hi Spanish,

By reading the description on the website, I think this might (can't be sure though) be the same stuff that I previewed several years ago while they were doing market research. Unless they have radically changed the product, I wouldn't use it even if they sent a tractor-trailer load free of charge. Everyone that got samples felt the same way.

 

[White Room]

Whys that Rob, not upto scratch

 

[Rob Z]

Again, let me be careful to say that I don't know if this is the same stuff, so I don't want to unfairly slag a product if it isn't the same thing....but the description sounds somewhat the same as the marketing literature that I got with the samples.

The samples they were sent to us were the worst substrate I could imagine to try and set tile over. I think I would set tile on MDF:yikes: before I would have tried the stuff that they sent to me.

The rep told us it cut easily with a utility knife (I don't know what you call these in the UK or OZ-a basic razor knife to cut drywall) but it turned out that the utility knife would barely scratch the surface coating.

The rep said it was an easy "score and snap" cut, and a basic drywall saw was all that was needed to cut holes. No way would a drywall saw plunge into this product nor would it cut it, and snapping a sheet was impossible. It turns out a grinder was the only way to cut it.

The rep said this board was suitable for thinset and plaster, but the surface was so slick and smooth nothing would stick to it.

The rep said it was a breeze to run fasteners through the panels, but you can guess by now how that went...

So the funny thing was that this rep kept calling me and the other guys that got samples, and we all kept relating all of the above observations to him, and his only response was to say that we didn't know what we were doing or that we needed to get used to the product, and then he wanted to sell us container loads and told us how much money would could make selling this crap to other contractors once we got the container.

What a typical tosser salesman he was...I told him I was a small scale contractor, and it would take me years and years to go through a container, even if I wanted the product, and that was no way to market his panels to 90% of the guys that would buy it (assuming they even wanted to). His response to me: "You'll never get ahead in life if you don't start to think of the bigger picture and that you could start now by buying a container and selling it for X% markup and make a lot of $$$$$ and ....."

I hung up on him at that point, and then when he kept calling back and leaving messages, he would say "Hi Rob, this is so-and-so, and I was wondering what you thought of those samples I sent to you?"

Then his messages turned into "Rob, this is so-and-so, you asked for me to send you samples, which I did. I spent a lot of money sending those from Canada and you really owe it to me to ....."

What a tool.:lol: