Removing tiles

Kimi

Kimi

Kimi

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Hey now, im just starting the first attempt at a DIY bathroom refurb and started chipping off the tiles last night, i was wondering if anyone has any tips?

Some are on plaster board and some on brick, i was using a hammer and chisel and watching the youtube videos most peoples tiles come off whole or in halves, when i was doing it each one seemed to come off in 5- 10 bits which makes removing them take ages.

Also, when the tiles are removed i need to get the wall skimmed so i can paint half and put some new tiles up, do i have to get all the glue/tile bonding stuff off the wall or do they just plaster over it?


There seems to be different types of adhesive used in different places
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So many tiles
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Thanks guys ;)
 
get an sds drill that has hammer only function and put a flat chisel bit in it. Away you go. you're likely to ruin the plasterboarded bits so you may as well remove the plasterboard and replace it.

No other way really. Make sure you wear eye protection and protect your body. shards of flying tiles are very sharp and will shred you to pieces if you're not careful!
 
Mark M said:
Will this cheap SDS drill do the job?
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Yeah, that'd be fine. I used an SDS drill similar to that with a flat 2" chisel and it blasted the tiles off my bathroom walls with ease. As previously mentioned - you absolutely must wear eye protection and also long gloves/gauntlets. I only wore short gloves and ended up with a nasty shard of tile embedded in my wrist.
 
Makes sense to go for a lighter one, will check out the local Lidl and Aldi thanks.

RAther than start a new thread but what is best to move tiles/rubble from the bathroom to a skip? I was thinking of one of those plasters buckets perhaps?
 
When i took mine off, in that pic, i just let them drop on the floor them shovel them into a box them took downstairs/to dump/to skip.
 
Your chisel is probably blunt.

An SDS is the way to go though.

I skim over adhesive (after unibonding it) but some people don't like skimming anything other than flat surfaces (wimps).
 
screwfix had a deal on an hitachi or Makita sds drill last time I was in,get a set of chisels/drills with it too £100 I think

I used hammer n chisel also in my kitchen and I had to chisel the patches of adhesive off,i didn't bother skimming the plaster I made up the difference with tile adhesive

but some patching plaster would do the job
 
I picked up an SDS chisel at the weekend, i didn't get chance to test it tho, ended up removing a door frame in the loft conversion to open the space up a bit (and stopping having to duck every time i walk through :))
 
I removed a few tiles in the clockroom with a concrete chisel and a hammer (ie manually) but it has left the adhesive on the wall, does this need to be removed before its re-tiled?
 
Mark M said:
I removed a few tiles in the clockroom with a concrete chisel and a hammer (ie manually) but it has left the adhesive on the wall, does this need to be removed before its re-tiled?
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yeah or your tiles will all be uneven

you will chisel the patches of adhesive off
 
Another quick question on the tile front - Ive got all of the tiles off and managed to save almost all of the plaster board however I was wondering if there is an issue with putting new tiles onto the existing plaster boards? The new tiles are slightly bigger so will be a bit heavier but nothing major I dont think and to be fair they are obviously covering a larger area. Anything else to consider?
 
I finally got round to continuing the bathroom after completing my faraday loft room and used the SDS chisel to remove the tiles, it was so much easier!

Anyway as you can see in the pics it has left a few holes on one of the walls.:eek:

I was just wondering what the best way to repair these would be? ive not seen this type of wall before, its made out of plaster with a honeycomb structure made of plaster inside it! a plaster honeycomb sandwich

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Could i just fill the holes with something, maybe expanding foam, then some polyfiller before i get it skimmed?

The left of the wall is plasterboard, but the right half of the wall is the honeycomb stuff.

I was thinking of just plasterboarding the whole wall then starting again but that would cause the coving at the top of the wall to have a lip on it after fitted a board + tiles.

the wall on the right is solid, but from knocking no the walls i think i might have one more like the one in the pics
 
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If you have a multitool then a carbide rasp would remove the blobs of tile adhesive. I found the chisels on an sds to be a bit too blunt to get under it and tend to just gouge big holes in the plaster.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nipper-NCRB-Carbide-Rasp-/161363707617?_trksid=p2054897.l4275

Not seen that type of wall before either. If it was me i'd fill the voids with polyurethane foam, leaving it a little below the surface and then skim it flat with some onecoat plaster.
 
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Ah so thats what that blades for lol, i bought a multitool and a ton of blades but most of them arent labeled so im not sure what they are for, ill have a crack at that tonight.
 
That wall looks like Paramount board (or similar) - all the internal walls in my house are made of a similar stuff, 2 sheets of plasterboard with a void in between that's about 7cm deep, with egg carton style structures inside.
I love it, it's so easy to run cables, just cut your hole for a new switch and bang something flexible like a 1m aluminium rule upwards to knock out the cardboard dividing sections - no noggins to get in the way.

http://www.archiexpo.com/prod/placoplatre/sandwich-panels-62387-231454.html

http://www.diynot.com/forums/building/cellular-partition.306693/
 
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