Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?

Thanks for any advice.

Gareth

Gareth wrote:
Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?

Usually best not to bother or try... just rip the tiled plasterboard
down and replace.

David

Lobster wrote:
Gareth wrote:
Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from
plasterboard walls?

Usually best not to bother or try... just rip the tiled plasterboard
down and replace.

David

I agree with that.

--
Adam

On 05/08/2010 22:41, Lobster wrote:
Gareth wrote:
Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?

Usually best not to bother or try... just rip the tiled plasterboard
down and replace.

David

Indeed. Plasterboard is very cheap. You're unlikely to achieve a
re-useable surface after removing tiles, so far easier to replace.
--
Cheers,
Roger
____________
Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom
checked.

On 05/08/2010 22:55, John Rumm wrote:
On 05/08/2010 21:38, Gareth wrote:

Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?

For what purpose?

Currently my bathroom is tiled ~halfway up the walls on all four walls.
This is not high enough to prevent water getting onto untiled parts of
the wall when taking a shower, I would therefore like to remove the
tiles and tile all the way up to the ceiling around the bath. The
current tiles are also a bit too dark for my liking.

If they are well stuck and you want to re-tile, then
abrade them with coarse glass paper and tile over.

Thanks, a good suggestion if all the area I wanted to tile was already
tiled but with the way it is currently this would result in a small step
1/2 way up the wall.

To remove, you may have luck with a SDS tile chisel. At best the wall
will probably need a reskim, at worst new plasterboard!

On 05/08/2010 22:55, Roger Mills wrote:
On 05/08/2010 22:41, Lobster wrote:
Gareth wrote:
Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?

Usually best not to bother or try... just rip the tiled plasterboard
down and replace.

David

Indeed. Plasterboard is very cheap. You're unlikely to achieve a
re-useable surface after removing tiles, so far easier to replace.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Gareth wrote:
Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?

Thanks for any advice.

Gareth
New plasterboard?

Gareth wrote:
On 05/08/2010 22:55, John Rumm wrote:
On 05/08/2010 21:38, Gareth wrote:

Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?
For what purpose?

Currently my bathroom is tiled ~halfway up the walls on all four walls.
This is not high enough to prevent water getting onto untiled parts of
the wall when taking a shower, I would therefore like to remove the
tiles and tile all the way up to the ceiling around the bath. The
current tiles are also a bit too dark for my liking.

That's the same setup as my bathroom. A lump hammer and cold chisel
worked fine for me. It took a few lumps out of the plasterboard, but
there was still plenty left to stick the new tiles to.

Cheers,

Colin.

On 05/08/2010 in message
Gareth wrote:

Thanks, a good suggestion if all the area I wanted to tile was already
tiled but with the way it is currently this would result in a small step
1/2 way up the wall.

When I had that problem some years back I sloped the first row of tiles
and then went straight up. It hardly noticed and was easy to keep clean.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who do binary and those
who don't.

"Gareth" wrote


Thanks, a good suggestion if all the area I wanted to tile was already
tiled but with the way it is currently this would result in a small step
1/2 way up the wall.

I got the upper half of the wall skimmed (with bonding plaster) to level
with the face of the lower tiles - then tile over the resulting flat
surface.
As previously mentioned, worth roughening the surface of the tiles on the
lower half of the wall.
Use decent adhesive for tiles-on-tiles - I used BAL White Star.

Phil

On 05/08/2010 23:47, Colin Stamp wrote:
Gareth wrote:
On 05/08/2010 22:55, John Rumm wrote:
On 05/08/2010 21:38, Gareth wrote:

Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?
For what purpose?

Currently my bathroom is tiled ~halfway up the walls on all four walls.
This is not high enough to prevent water getting onto untiled parts of
the wall when taking a shower, I would therefore like to remove the
tiles and tile all the way up to the ceiling around the bath. The
current tiles are also a bit too dark for my liking.

That's the same setup as my bathroom. A lump hammer and cold chisel
worked fine for me. It took a few lumps out of the plasterboard, but
there was still plenty left to stick the new tiles to.

Cheers,

Colin.

I've done this too. IME a 4" paint scraper and a light hammer works
better on plasterboard than the bolster/club hammer method.

I recently did my bathroom... Removed all tiles with a pain scraper. The
tiles came off easy, but, left the adhesive on the wall. The adhesive was
essentially flat, a few parts fell off, so i just skimmed in them holes to
bring to the level of the old tile adhesive.

Alternately, I could have spent a number of hours getting the adhesive off
the plaster.... I sort of had to just make sure the little raised parts
where the grout was a little higher was removed but that just took 10 mins.
I tiled over the old adhesive then with no problems.

I guess with the OP only having half tiled, not so easy, so, maybe remove
the adhesive too. Removing the plasterboard with the tiles all seems a
little overkill to me..!!







"Gareth" wrote in message
o.uk...

Does anyone have any tips for removing ceramic tiles from plasterboard
walls?

Thanks for any advice.

Gareth

"Lobster" wrote


Usually best not to bother or try... just rip the tiled plasterboard down
and replace.

David

Beware "Paramount" style plasterboard walls - they would certainly not stand
this type of treatment (2 bits of plasterboard with egg-crate cardboard
filling).
We have these in 1970s build .

Phil

TheScullster wrote:
"Lobster" wrote

Usually best not to bother or try... just rip the tiled plasterboard down
and replace.

David

Beware "Paramount" style plasterboard walls - they would certainly not stand
this type of treatment (2 bits of plasterboard with egg-crate cardboard
filling).
We have these in 1970s build .


Ah..yes..

Good point.

Trouble with tiled board, is that it usually rips the paper off
*selectively*.

Cost of skimming to an acceptable standard is more than replacing the skin.

Except as you point out, if it hasn't any structure behind.


Phil

Enzo wrote:
snipola

Removing the plasterboard with the tiles
all seems a little overkill to me..!!

If the tile adhesive is straight onto plasterboard, rather than skimmed
plasterboard, it very often comes away with the tile, that is to say, the
tile, adhesive and PB are often bonded so tightly that big chunks of it end
up coming off, if this is the case, it would probably be easier to just rip
it all off and re-board

--
Phil L
RSRL Tipster Of The Year 2008

Phil L wrote:
Enzo wrote:
snipola

Removing the plasterboard with the tiles
all seems a little overkill to me..!!

If the tile adhesive is straight onto plasterboard, rather than skimmed
plasterboard, it very often comes away with the tile, that is to say, the
tile, adhesive and PB are often bonded so tightly that big chunks of it end
up coming off, if this is the case, it would probably be easier to just rip
it all off and re-board

yes. By all means try and get them off, but be prepared to end up with a
re-boarding job.

BUT its actually so trivial to relay new board, which doesn't even need
skimming, for tiles, that its no big deal if it does come off.

I am so used now to removing and replacing, and even reskimming,
sections of wall that need supports behind them or cables run through
them that its no longer an issue for me. slap the board on, scrim edges,
plaster on, and orbital sand it down to natch the old. Paint and go.