When would you use wire mesh for tiling floors ?

Answer 1

When I had my house remodeled, the floor for the kitchen was in the transition area from the old subfloor to the new subfloor and it was a bit uneven. So, the tile installers put down a layer of 1/2-inch hardybacker and then used a leveling compound (like a plasticized cement) that they leveled and smoothed with trowels, like smoothing concrete, to get the floor dead level.

Before they poured the leveling compound, they screwed wire mesh down to the hardybacker to give the leveling compound something to grab onto. It gives it reinforcement, just like rebar in the grout of a brick wall or steel mesh in a concrete slab.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

only when you do a mud job under the tile

Answer 4

THIS IS USED WHEN THE SUBSTRAIGHT IS SMOOTH ie LINO, I WOULD USE A PRODUCT CALLED EXPANDED METAL LATH (USED FOR STUCCO) INSTEAD IT HOLDS THE MORTAR BETTER.