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Bathroom Walls for tiling - Bathroom remodeling?

We just started remodeling our Bathroom with my husband. And we are concerned about walls. When we removed the original, old tile, behind it we found more cement and behind that, a wired mesh. The upper section of walls do not have any kind of mesh, but simple a painted dry wall. We are kind of concerned about this mesh. Should we replace it by dry wall? Or do something else? Or how should we prepare those walls for laying tile? Does this wired mesh needed? by the way. We are doing complete remodeling. We will change everything there.

Public Comments

1. What you have is a mud wall designed for tile, this is what we did in the old days. if it is not all broken up tile over it. If it is bad, pull off and get ready made concrete board screw it to the walls (after removing old) and tile away.
2. Your old tile was installed using thick set motor. Sometimes called mud set. This was popular many years ago but is not used so much anymore. Your new tile will be thin set so there will be no mesh or thick cement. You should put drywall behind the new tile unless it is inside a shower or bathtub area where you will want to use a cement backer board.