I'm hoping you guys can steer me in the right direction. At the moment I have white tiles in the kitchen forming the splash back between the work top and the cupboards above. Wife wants new kitchen.......but in reality cant afford a full blown remodel as the kitchen is in pretty good condition but we all know a womans logic.Anyhow............need to remove the tiles...............and I live in a new build type house (plasterboard walls) and I cant see they,ll come off with out causing major holes in the plasterboard. I was thinking.......would one of those "Sonic scrapers" get in behind the tiles and remove them with little or no damage to the walls?? or has anyone tried it? There must be a Tiler amongst us?
Don't think sonic chisels will help mate. Depends wether or not the tiles have been blobed on or a thin screed, if it's blobed it will pull holes in the board( from my past experience anyway) Another option? Tile on top, you can get the screed that covers the old ones giving adhesion, for sockets? Just get some longer screws for them jobs a good un only coming out an extra 5mm or so.
no real way of taking them off without damage to the plaster board, just take them off and repair the boards, its simple. If you tile over the existing tiles then check to make sure they dont bridge onto the hob. also if there are corners then getting a beading to fit will be a struggle.. just take them off.. If large holes appear when taking them off I can tell you how to repair it easily, let me know Hope this helps
Yea thats what I thought! Also thought about cutting around the whole lot and removing them still attached to the boad and then lay that on a board,mark around and cut a new bit and fit in it's place......somehow I cant see it being that easy.....NOT!
dont bother trying that, more headache than its worth and its not the way to do it.. It is easy, its basic DIY.. take the tiles off and fill the holes.. Two ways of doing this.. if the holes are largish then cut back to the nearest stud each side and fit back in some 12.5mm or 9mm plaster board, unibond and tile... If the holes left are smallish you can build the hole up with browning/bonding with some cement thrown in, goes off real quick or use dirty water.. or you can cut some plasterboard slightly smaller than the hole so that it will fit in, put a nail in the middle of it first with some string attached so you can hold it tight against the board and then face it up with some asdhesive/ bonding etc May sound difficult but its pretty basic.. Remember to take the socket faces off and tile to the leading edge of the back box, should be enough flex to pull the sockets away from the wall enough to gain access.. failing all that then get a builder in, horses for courses
Mmm,just thought there must be an easy solution but perhaps not!,I thought I'd got away from building work once I'd moved to a new build!,I,ve been down the Renavation route when I was a bit younger having moved the wife into 2 houses without windows n doors,even half a roof.......SHE WAS NOT HAPPY.............but got em for a good price (you could in them days,not like nowadays) Think I might try a Sonic Scraper with the long thin blade,it might cut through the muck.
