Bathroom tiles

tpt

Depends how old they are, if they are on with a modern thin bed adhesive and not dot and dabbed its going to need a bit more grunt

27col

I have just come back from removing the splash-back tiles at my bowling club. As I suggested in my other post, the tiles came off very easily. When you actually look, it is apparent that the tiles were mostly held on by the grout. Over most of the area, there was no residue of adhesive left on the skimmed wall surface. I have come across this several times in the past when removing tiles.

keystone

Lol - tiles that have been DIYd with tubbed stuff are nearly always held on by the grout and have a tendency to just fall off.

If the brute force approach is necessary consider one of these in place of a brick bolster:


as it will do far less damage.

Using an SDS drill on chisel with a standard wide chisel bit is poor advice IMHO as you will dig large lumps out of the wall. You need an cranked tile removal chisel that can be run down parallel to the wall similar to pic above but for an SDS drill.

Be careful about just overboarding willy nilly. You will be reducing the size of the room which in most bathrooms can give rise to other challenges as you proceed with the project.

Cheers

ormus

i did a bathroom for a mate some 4 yrs ago.
ex council house.
nearly all the tiles just fell off! i only had to use a paint scraper!
i was filling a bucket directly off the wall. every minute.

Dippypud

As people have said, it depends on your house.

If it's an old Victorian / Edwardian terrace or semi, you might be lucky that the plaster is good and the tiles are held on with the grout and fresh air.

If not and the plaster is 'live', very soft and not stuck to the wall very well, (noticable by the sound it makes when you knock on it).

http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/tiling/tile_removal.htm