Plywood backerboard for panel

To me, painting the backboard certainly adds a touch of professionalism to the job.
We painted a half-dozen at a time and kept them in the shop sending them out with the panels.
 
garbo said:
There is a big difference in on old house that has a damp cellar with old stone walls & cracked floors and no windows,ventilation or heat compared to homes built with basements ( which are only partially below grade level ) poured concrete or cement block walls, windows and if forced hot air heat have air registers that keeps humidity level stable entire year.
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And then there are those that have the former and decided to have it sealed up better and added some heating/cooling to maintain better air quality which often results in better air quality throughout the entire house. Seen many dirt floor crawl spaces that get vapor barriers and perimeter insulation installed for same reasons.
 
Don't know where, probably NYC, but I heard they wanted fire retardant plywood painted with a fire retardant paint and don't paint over the area that is stamped to say the ply is fire retardant. 😖

-Hal
 
hbiss said:
Don't know where, probably NYC, but I heard they wanted fire retardant plywood painted with a fire retardant paint and don't paint over the area that is stamped to say the ply is fire retardant. 😖

-Hal
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How about just mount on the fire retardant masonry wall?

Or do they still want fire retardant paint on that as well?

Isn't fire retardant plywood the stuff that has been left uncovered in the rain? and is only fire retardant until it dries out:)
 
augie47 said:
To me, painting the backboard certainly adds a touch of professionalism to the job.
We painted a half-dozen at a time and kept them in the shop sending them out with the panels.
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I use pressure treated ply and paint it for use in a basement, and mount to treated 2x or rails leaving air space behind ply panel.
 
augie47 said:
To me, painting the backboard certainly adds a touch of professionalism to the job.
We painted a half-dozen at a time and kept them in the shop sending them out with the panels.
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I like a nice backboard, painted with good quality plywood, not just CDX. Recently I needed one to mount a large 600A panel on, and I thought I would pawn it off on the client's maintenance guy. He tacks up a piece of unpainted bowed CDX with some drywall screws.....so off to big orange I went to get a nice piece of birch plywood and some paint 🙄
 
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