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Not painted properly, it isn’t. Moisture protection is one of the primary benefits of paint.

• thsksbd 3y ago
  Unless you're using a speciality paint, latex is too porous (for vapor, not liquid water) and gypsum too large a chemical potential well.
  • sonofhans 3y ago
    Yeah, “properly” was doing some work in my response :) It helps to use a glossy paint, and to put that over wet-environment primer on top of wet-environment drywall.
    • thsksbd 3y ago
      Cool. Rhanks for the reply