I'm repairing some drywall above a tile shower surround (old house, I'm pretty sure that the base for the tile is lath and some sort of mortar--it's thick and feels very solid) and the only thing "wrong" is that the paper has delaminated from the gypsum board itself. It's still solid, everything looks fine, except for the paper. Now the questions:
- Do I need to remove/replace, or can I just sand, skim-coat and paint?
- If I do skim coat, should I just use drywall mud, or is that not waterproof enough? If not, what should I use? I had to buy perlited plaster to fix some other cracks in the real plaster, so I have some.
I'm pretty okay with methods, I'm just not sure of the materials. Thanks for the help.
-Phil Crow