wrote:
I have a house built in the 1950s with plaster walls. The kitchen has
yellow tile on the walls that extends from the countertop to the
bottom of the cabinets. The wife wants something different. The tile
guy says the old tile has to be removed before anything new can be put
up.

Any advice on how to do this without destroying more of the wall than
necessary?

Would something like this work?
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=32940

My experience is that air impact hammers give such poor control that it would
totally trash your wall. Way too much power for the job.

I used a 2-3" flat bladed "scraper" (like a putty knife, only much thicker and
beveled edge), tapping the end of the scraper with a hammer lightly at the edge
of each tile to pop them loose on my current project. I then scraped the residue
with a carbide paint scraper and filled gouges with joint compound.