Re: [DMCForum] Re: Ripping Out Cement & Wire Tile Base

["Lauren" <LPLand@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I replaced one of my bathroom subfloors from below, leaving the mesh &
> cement (and tile) in place.

What's a subfloor?  For that matter, what's a basement?  <GGG>  
Construction out here is so different from back East, what you're 
describing is way beyond my expertise or experience.  Here, it's just 
a house on a concrete slab.  Basements are almost unheard of. Two 
reasons -- one because it's easier to spread out than dig down.  And 
two -- digging down would require blasting.  The desert turns 
minerals into a natural concrete called caliche (kuh-LEE-chee) -- 
rock hard and a bitch to cut through.  We had to jackhammer out 
fence post holes - and even then we could only set them 18" down.
> 
> Original house construction set the bathtub (cast iron) on the
> subfloor, then the cement was laid to its front edge. Of course water
> ran down the edge (step children), puddled and ran down the crack
> between it and the cement, and eventually ate up the subfloor.

Then you should have made the stepkids dig it out ;)  
> 
> I ripped out the plywood from underneath (crawlspace) one joist width
> at a time, and fed in new 16" strips. Finished floor briefly hung
> suspended while I did it. Worked like a charm.

WOW -- that's a major undertaking.  Glad I don't live closer so you 
couldn't take me up on my offer.
> 
> And I didn't have to relay any tile.

I'd relay tile in a heartbeat before doing all that work!

......................LP

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