I have an idea for (hopefully) cutting down on the mess of busting up and
removing a ceramic tile floor. Hoping it's as workable in reality as it is
in my head. Hoping to find, perhaps, a extra heavy duty tarp (or similar)
to put over the tile entry. Hammer away at the tile underneath. Wouldn't
this help quite a bit with dust and flying debris? Our entry is small but
I'd like to keep the mess to a minimum.
Thanks,
Monica

In , on 07/05/04
at 02:18 AM, "Monica" said:

I have an idea for (hopefully) cutting down on the mess of busting up
and removing a ceramic tile floor. Hoping it's as workable in reality
as it is in my head. Hoping to find, perhaps, a extra heavy duty tarp
(or similar) to put over the tile entry. Hammer away at the tile
underneath. Wouldn't this help quite a bit with dust and flying
debris? Our entry is small but I'd like to keep the mess to a minimum.

If you intend to hammer through the tarp and the tile is well attached,
I think the tarp will absorb too much energy and you won't be able to
break the tile.

My suggestion is: use your tarps to seal off the area as best you can,
turn off the airconditioning (or it will blow the dust around), dampen
the area slightly to hold down the dust, and keep a heavy duty vacuum
cleaner hose near the tool. Hopefully, you can remove most of the dust
before it can move around.

Be sure to wear hearing, eye, and hand protection. I would also think
twice about wearing shorts.

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Cover entrances with cheap 99c plastic tarps, Plastic on tile will let
you see your hitting, wear Glasses. Plastic on tile may be slippery but
any real dust will happen on shoveling it up. Even so its a heavy dust
it wont be bad. Remodeling is dusty work ...

Cover entrances with cheap 99c plastic tarps, Plastic on tile will let
you see your hitting, wear Glasses. Plastic on tile may be slippery but
any real dust will happen on shoveling it up. Even so its a heavy dust
it wont be bad. Remodeling is dusty work ...

busting up tile will (mostly) make chunks which are easily swept up. if you
want to minimize flying chunks, i would just use an old towel where you are
actually hitting. its not like you need to cover the entire floor.

where you will make some real gains is in the cleanup. i would suggest
getting a shop vac with an exhaust port, and running a hose from that port
out a window or a door. anything that gets past the vaccum filter will go
outside instead of all over the house.

if you're a neat freak and cant stand mess even while project is under
construction i would do this. bust out a couple tiles using the towel, then
vaccum that section as mentioned above. wash, rinse, repeat til its all up.

randy

"Monica" wrote in message
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I have an idea for (hopefully) cutting down on the mess of busting up and
removing a ceramic tile floor. Hoping it's as workable in reality as it
is
in my head. Hoping to find, perhaps, a extra heavy duty tarp (or similar)
to put over the tile entry. Hammer away at the tile underneath. Wouldn't
this help quite a bit with dust and flying debris? Our entry is small but
I'd like to keep the mess to a minimum.
Thanks,
Monica

Just cut the floor off with the tiles attached if you can get to the
underneath you can drill holes where the studs are and just go to town. Very
clean little mess a little more work putting in new subfloor but for
entryway it should not cost much!


Wayne

"Monica" wrote in message
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I have an idea for (hopefully) cutting down on the mess of busting up and
removing a ceramic tile floor. Hoping it's as workable in reality as it
is
in my head. Hoping to find, perhaps, a extra heavy duty tarp (or similar)
to put over the tile entry. Hammer away at the tile underneath. Wouldn't
this help quite a bit with dust and flying debris? Our entry is small but
I'd like to keep the mess to a minimum.
Thanks,
Monica

Thanks for all the suggestions. Our foundation is slab. Probably won't be
taking that out with the tile g I'm liking the "port on the shop vac"
idea
Monica
"Wayne" wrote in message
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Just cut the floor off with the tiles attached if you can get to the
underneath you can drill holes where the studs are and just go to town.
Very
clean little mess a little more work putting in new subfloor but for
entryway it should not cost much!


Wayne

"Monica" wrote in message
...
I have an idea for (hopefully) cutting down on the mess of busting up
and
removing a ceramic tile floor. Hoping it's as workable in reality as it
is
in my head. Hoping to find, perhaps, a extra heavy duty tarp (or
similar)
to put over the tile entry. Hammer away at the tile underneath.
Wouldn't
this help quite a bit with dust and flying debris? Our entry is small
but
I'd like to keep the mess to a minimum.
Thanks,
Monica