Help-Question about removing 2 layers of bathroom tiles

moneylover

keystone wrote: »

Tsk, Tsk.


Cheers

Sorry, I dont understand. Surely it is best to link my question to a thread where lots of comments made already - there is no point people having to repeat themselves with answers?

keystone

Apart from the problem that some of the answers are poor advice did you miss the ? T'was a little joke and not designed to be at your expense either.

Anyway to more important matters - my second post is germane to your query not this one.

Cheers

moneylover

keystone wrote: »

Apart from the problem that some of the answers are poor advice did you miss the ? T'was a little joke and not designed to be at your expense either.

Anyway to more important matters - my second post is germane to your query not this one.

Cheers

I didnt see the second post - on next page - till now!!! very useful and thank you very much

tpt

Getting the tiles off - you'll either be lucky and they will come of dead easily or you'll need a hammer & wide bolster.

Dont go to the trouble of plastering - its pointless and a worse base for tiles than plasterboard. if the skim comes off with the tiles but the render is sound, tile onto that. if it all comes off and your back to bricks dry line with moisture resistant plasterboard (in the shower tank it afterwards) and then just prime the boards and tile straight onto it.

27col

It has been my experience that tiles will come off a plaster board wall very easily if it has been skimmed. If it has not been skimmed then the plaster board will come off as well. The fact that there are two layers of tiles should make no difference to their removal. If the skim is weak then obviously it will be required to be re-skimmed. Although I have tiled an un-skimmed wall in the past. However, as I have no intention of taking the tiles off the un-skimmed wall any time soon, I can have no idea how difficult it might be to remove them.

moneylover

my son now thinks that he will get the bath etc put infirst then the tiler can take the tiles off and retile. I think there is great potenial for error plus tiles falling off onto new bath, taps into loo etc etc doesnt seem a very good idea to me. Or is this standard way to do it? I dont think handbasin or loo will necesarily be same shape or size and I know the bath is going the other way round!

latecomer

definitely take the tiles off before putting any part of the new suite - especially the bath. Broken tiles falling from head height dont mix well with baths