Tiling Question

[BigguyZ]

I'm refacing a painted brick fireplace with Tile. I've mounted lathe on the fireplace, and I'm wondering if I can just tile directly onto that with mortar- or if I should use the two-part mortar (expoxy moprtar or something- one type goes on the lathe, and the other goes on the tile).

Thanks,

[chopnhack]

You could do a scratch coat of stucco to "bite" into the lathe and take up any waviness in the wall. Then you could just tile that with thinset. There are many other ways, I am sure others will chime in soon.

[crokett]

What do you mean by lathe? Wood? Most of the fireplace tile jobs I've seen that go over anything but raw brick they do metal screen then a scratch coat of thinset to cover the screen, then tile over the scratch coat. Alternatively you can attach cement backerboard to the wood and skip the scratch coat.

[Alex Franke]

I'm refacing a painted brick fireplace with Tile. I've mounted lathe on the fireplace, and I'm wondering if I can just tile directly onto that with mortar- or if I should use the two-part mortar (expoxy moprtar or something- one type goes on the lathe, and the other goes on the tile).

Okay, here's what I'm picturing from your description. (I've never done this type of work before, so hopefully I'm not too far off target here.) Now the lathe looks pretty good up there -- it makes a rather dramatic design statement -- but I just don't like the looks of the mortar on the lathe... too rustic for my taste. Hope this helps

[chopnhack]

Alex you clown!
Nice photoshopping.

[BigguyZ]

Sorry- metal lath. (sp?)

Guess I didn't go to dictionary.com first.....

[cabinetman]

Alex you clown!
Nice photoshopping.

See what happens when he gets new software.
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[chopnhack]

Hehe, now I know where I can send my jpg's for editing. I took me an hour to merge to simple files to make my avatar using that free prog. paint net....grrr....layers

[crokett]

Sorry- metal lath. (sp?)

Guess I didn't go to dictionary.com first.....

Then a scratchcoat of thinset to bite into the lathe. Alternatively there are masonry coatings designed to reface brick and concrete block you can get to be the scratch coat. Only advantage to those may be cost.