Timeline for What is the 2-inch layer of masonry under my bathroom tile?
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| Jan 2, 2021 at 16:49 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Nov 19, 2020 at 2:47 | comment | added | Chris Rasco | @E.V.I.L. I took a big hammer and broke it up. There was a metal mesh stapled to the subfloor so I used a pry bar to help pull it up. WEAR SAFETY GLOVES. After removing it all, we used self leveling compound to get everything flat and had tile put down. I do not remember if we put down cement board before the tile went down or not as we had a contractor do the install. I'll have to go back through my progress photos to see. | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 1:24 | comment | added | E.V.I.L. | How did you end up fixing it? We just removed our vanity and have the same setup. Thinking I'd lay some plywood then "dry pack" the area. | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 12:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDIY/status/698481284167966720 | ||
| Feb 13, 2016 at 4:11 | answer | added | personal privacy advocate | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 22:00 | vote | accept | Chris Rasco | ||
| Feb 12, 2016 at 21:53 | answer | added | Jimmy Fix-it | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 21:23 | history | edited | isherwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2016 at 21:21 | comment | added | isherwood | My guess would've been in-floor heat. We've done homes where the master bath subfloor was lowered for just this reason. | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 21:11 | comment | added | Chris Rasco | @JPhi1618 the step up into the bathroom is very small. The threshold has a beveled marble strip and is definitely not the full thickness of the poured floor. | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 21:00 | comment | added | Ed Beal | It looks like a mortar mix or just sand and cement. This is the way I used to do counter tops because it was cheaper than cement board and with irregular shapes was easy to form with bender board. | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 20:49 | comment | added | JPhi1618 | If that is a quick-level cement product, that's normally only supposed to be 1" thick max. Because of how brittle it is, I'd be worried about future cracks, but I honestly don't have any experience with a poured floor like that. Is there a step up into the room? | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 20:45 | comment | added | Chris Rasco | @JPhi1618 That was my fear. It was chipping up pretty easily. | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 20:43 | answer | added | Ed Beal | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 20:33 | comment | added | JPhi1618 | With all the damage to the "material" from scraping up the tiles, you're going to have to do something to get a level surface again over the whole floor. | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 20:29 | comment | added | BrownRedHawk | Looks like leveling compound to me. I'm not sure if you'd pour more where the vanity was, though. | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 20:20 | history | asked | Chris Rasco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |