Removing bathroom wall tiles

McVey · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:05 am Post Subject: Removing bathroom wall tiles

The wall the present bathroom tiles are on appears to be plasterboard and when starting to remove a handful of tiles, obviously the plaster is being removed and being taken down to strips behind (don\\\'t know what they are called). Am I right in assuming it is just tough and we will need to put new plasterboard up before retiling, what a mess?

masona · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:25 am Post Subject:

I don't think there is a easy solution to this,properly quicker to rip the plasterboard out and renew.Most people tile over existing tiles instead.

Goofyish · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 1:05 pm Post Subject:

Are you sure it's plasterboard? - the 'strips' could be laths.

I've started stripping the tiles from my bathroom. There are two layes of tiles. The top layer seems to be stuck on with some kind of resin glue and just fall of in blocks! The layer underneath also come of very easily (so far touch wood!) - in fact so far 90% of the tiles have just dropped off intact!

Mohammad · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:39 pm Post Subject: Remove old tiles!

I have red several articles and opinion about how to remove old tiles and put new tiles. Putting new tile is easy part. Challenge is the removing old tiles. I like Masona’s idea to put new tiles on the existing one.

pitt paul riley · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:16 am Post Subject:

the weight of the tiling must be taken into account unless the background is render or brickwork etc.
plaster backgrounds are week and will only support 20 kg per sq meter and plasterboard 32 kg per sq meter.
so folks be careful tiling on tile and tiling on tile again.

paul riley

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