Removing Old Tile From Shower Wall

Our shower room needs revamping.

Removing old tile from shower wall.

If you plan to remove a whole wall of tiles try tapping the edge of each one with a. Messy back breaking work. Protect yourself and your surroundings. Chisel tiles away from the wall.

Put your putty knife under each tile and pry upwards. Removing ceramic tiles from the shower walls can be difficult without damaging the surface of the wall because of the strong adhesive used with the original tile installation. Try to locate a loose tile. Your demo was so neat and tamed.

Continue to until you have pried off all of the ceramic tiles that you wish to remove. And i don t care what any one says demo sucks. I sadly made this same mistake redoing my bathroom and had to spend an all nighter removing old drywall and putting up cement backer board. The only way the old tile was coming out of my bathroom was with a sledge hammer.

So in this video i will show you the part 1 where i removed the bathroom tiles. Break the tile if necessary. Chisel away tiles instead. Consider tearing apart shower walls.

Removing wall tile 1. This approach should let you save more of your tiles for reuse unless the tiles are. The tiles should be tapped gently to ensure that you don t break them but hard enough to dislodged them. Wear wraparound safety goggles work gloves long sleeves long work pants.