Arghhh, cork TILES !

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Hi everyone, about to move into a house where all of the outside walls have cork tiles on them - never seen this and want to remove them will a wall paper stripper do the job?

Or really would I be better off dry lining the entire wall (need to rewire and replumb so I guess all that making good could be avoided as well!)

Also got polystyrene tiles on ALL of the ceilings ! - any suggestions (other than have a fire :) )
 
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Polystere tiles....you may be lucky, if they have been put up wrong then they will just have been stuck in the corners......use a scraper and dry scrape them.....DONT use a hot air gun, unless you have a;ways wondered what a hospital burns unit looks like!

As for the cork tiles.....firstly..get some gloves and a heavy duty blade scraper....your in for a heavy scraping session!.....if you can get the cork off you may find it leaves behind a lot of the glue residue...you will have to remove this too.

But bear in mind you dont know what glue it is...using a hot air stripper may soften it but could also casue it to give off toxic fumes..very toxic!

Paint stripper is worth a try.

If neither work.....im affraid it could be a re skim job.
 
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Are we saying that dry lining is the way to go - or would having walls reskimmed be cheaper??
 
i took a walls worth of cork tiles down the other year.... brought about 60% of the plaster off with them (right back to the brick work) - what a mess!!! had to re-skim....


also took two ceilings of polystyrene off - they came off easily enough with a scrapper...... but what was underneath them wasn't so easy to put right :(


good luck
 

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