I have always been a boarding board or plywood builder. There has been a new product out for a few years called Advantec. Everyone was always after me to get with the program and use it. I though,just another wafer board that will swell and fall apart. Finally I tried it on my own new house after asking many many questions about it. I had the first floor decked over in the fall and it sat all winter and spring with plastic over it. I didn't know that the plastic the guys layed had holes in it. The Advantec stayed wet all fall froze all winter and was wet, I mean wet all spring. When I took the plastic off I thought I was going to have to replace the decking. It was just like the day it was layed. This is the most incredible sheithing I have ever seen. Always flat, never have to worry about water,consistant thickness. It comes in 1/2 inch for walls, 5/8 t+g for roofing and 3/4 t+g for decking. Never use plywood again, it would have been completely delaminated if it went through what this did. In a bathroom for lanolium, you should lay a layer of 1/4 luan plywood nailed every 4 inches with ring shank,leaving a small space between the sheets and fill with spackle before laying the sheet goods.

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