Help - removing tiles from plasterboard

thescouselander

I'm trying to get the tiles down in the bathroom. The walls are lined with plasterboard and the tiles higher up the wall came off pretty easily. The problem is lower down different adhesive seems to have been used and it wont budge without ripping holes in the wall.


Does anyone know how to get the tile off without causing further damage?

bryanb

Probably waterproof adhesive low down. There is no way to avoid damage to the plasterboard.
New plasterboard is quite cheap

latecomer

You can try using a heavy duty scraper down the back of the tiles to try and separate them from the plasterboard although even if this is successful it can leave the adhesive behind which you've still got to deal with.

keystone

Even if you can remove them you won't save the plasterboard to the point where you can retile it so don't worry about it. Off the lot comes and replace it.

Cheers

Blueshark911

Try using a wallpaper steamer sometimes works , depending on the how the tiles were fixed, but as said before you may need to replace the plaster board.

stephen25uk

Blueshark911 wrote: »

Try using a wallpaper steamer sometimes works , depending on the how the tiles were fixed, but as said before you may need to replace the plaster board.

how is that gonna work....my shower is full of steam when i use it,tiles would all fall off if that was the case

ormus

just rip the whole lot off. P/B is dirt cheap.

thescouselander

ormus wrote: »

just rip the whole lot off. P/B is dirt cheap.

yeah, the materials are cheap enough but on wall is dot and dabed and that looks a bit messy. Looks like I'll have to do it though - does anyone have any tips?

keystone

Tear the PB off and using an SDS drill on chisel function with an angled wide chisel blade (or a brick bolster and lump hammer if your feeling energetic) you'll soon have the drywall addy off the wall.

Cheers

27col

It is nowhere near as difficult as you might think to replace dot & dab P/B. I had this problem last summer when I redid my son's bathroom. It can be a bit messy if you are not used to putting on the dabs, but it just requires a bit of concentration after you have discovered what works for you. Here are afew progress pictures.

keystone

Agree - its not major hassle. Just make sure you are using one bag of addy per 2400 x 1200 sheet. Then you'll know you've used enough to give a nice stable substrate for tiling.

Cheers