Completely screwed once water penetrates through the grout it will all come down

HACK THE BONE

You can stick a piece of paper to almost any surface with just water, yes. There's nothing more adhesive about drywall mud than dirt mud. That's part of why it's such a pain to work with.

NOT ON THE POND!

Blood means double the penalty.

No blood is still a penalty.

-nhl fan.

Ok

Before you paint joint compound, it’s water soluble. Take a big sponge to clean it off, let the area dry.

How lol wtf lol

i was speaking more to them falling off the wall 8 years down the line and shattering.

It was put on with drywall mud . They can reuse them, water will remove the drywall mud.

That's some scary shit! I've never seen that in my life. It's hard to imagine that piece of framing is really supporting anything with three nails in the OSB! Having said that I would do two things: 1. Use a circular saw to cut out enough of the OSB to observe the Pex and make any repairs 2. Call an engineer/contractor/building inspector to look at that abomination and tell you if it's actually supporting anything.

No, not exactly. Paper tape is embedded in the compound — first you run a knife’s width of mud on the joint, then embed the tape, swipe with firm pressure to get excess mud out, then you mud over top of the tape. Altogether, the tape becomes encased in the mud not unlike rebar in concrete — serving a similar function, it prevents cracks from forming in dry mud.

If you just leave tape on top of the mud, once everything dries, you can peel the tape off without much resistance.

Right, but it's similar in result, and if they don't treat it out and redo it it will be one.

I knew i tasted butterscotch!

Try using water and report back to us

And if they don't, the tile may be discontinued when it does.

It’s not going to hold since its not a bond rather a fill. I would replace as soon as you can.

Coworker told me about the time he heard an explosion in the middle of the night, went to check it out and it was their tiles exploding. He told me that apparently they had been laid with a non flexible adhesive and once the weather changed significantly (or maybe it was cold air con blowing on hot tiles can't fully recall) the expansion and contraction or thermal shock just caused some of the them to start exploding. Had to get the whole floor ripped out and relaid.

Screwed however you can rinse out the drywall compound with warm water from a hose, pop the tiles off, let the backer board dry and do it again properly.

Yeah, water will basically dissolve the mud.

Redo, it’s not waterproof!

I’m just going to pull it out. That is definitely not something that is per the blueprints for that house. Somebody just added that later.

Then fix your leak and look at the roof and try to figure out why that is there and if your roof needs support then redo a more correct way

I agree with the other guy. If a "professional" made this error and managed to do several square feet of wall without noticing, every single other thing that "professional" has touched is now suspect. This is the same level of fuckup as a body shop using house paint on your car.

Yeah, as a DIY job, this mistake is a teachable moment, if it were a professional job, it would be a straight up "GTFO and touch nothing on the way" moment.

He said it was an accident. It wasn't a shortcut.