How To Take Ouy Cement Wire On Bathroom Walls

Julie supposedly you can use demolition hammers on floors and walls.

How to take ouy cement wire on bathroom walls.

Concrete mortar walls are created from a combination of wire mesh or chicken wire attached to the wall studs on top of a layer of plastic sheeting. You can use drywall above the shower head but anything below the shower head should be lined with cement backer board. How to remove wall tile mortar and wire mesh. First determine if the wall you want to remove is a load bearing wall meaning it supports the floor above.

4 beyond is the outside wall isn t there a better way to reapply my new tile or do i have to reapply concrete to a new wire mesh. This goes back to the day when metal lath was nailed to all the studs in the house and then plaster was applied to that to create the walls. The layup is adhered to a chicken wire mesh. But in such a small bathroom leverage would have been a real challenge not to mention avoiding all of the many pipes and wires behind the walls so although doing the walls by hand took forever it was probably the most fail safe solution in our specific case.

While retiling my shower i see the tile was applied to a 1 thick concrete layup. If there s drywall remove it and plan to replace it with cement backer board to protect the walls from moisture and mold. Go into your basement or crawlspace and look at the alignment of floor joists. These are large pieces of lumber going across the house from side to side supporting the floor roof and are generally 16 apart.