How To Take Ouy Cement Wire On Bathroom Walls

How to remove wall tile mortar and wire mesh.

How to take ouy cement wire on bathroom walls.

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. 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. 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. Removing wall tile mortar and mesh can range from hard to very hard.

If there s drywall remove it and plan to replace it with cement backer board to protect the walls from moisture and mold. Once you ve removed the old tile inspect what s behind it. While retiling my shower i see the tile was applied to a 1 thick concrete layup. 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. Go into your basement or crawlspace and look at the alignment of floor joists. The layup is adhered to a chicken wire mesh. Julie supposedly you can use demolition hammers on floors and walls.