Thanks to the bodging incompetence of the cretin who tiled my bathroom, some of the tiles are loose, i.e. no longer stuck to the walls. There's a section where a wall is only partially tiled, because there was a cupboard, now removed. More-or-less floor to ceiling, and 3 tiles wide, they aren't stuck, and if I put my fingers on the edge and pull gently I can see the whole lot start to move.
And there are other tiles in other places where rapping with a knuckle produces an ominously hollow sound.
It may be, when I do a proper check of all of them that the situation is so dire that I think "**** it", and just have the whole lot re-done.
But OTOH, if it's just that 3-tile wide section, and a few random others, how feasible is it to cut right through the grouting with a Dremel or a Fein and remove just the dodgy ones?
I'm not so worried about getting those ones off undamaged, as I think I have enough spares, but if I do go for that I'd want to avoid breaking the neighbouring ones.
When I've removed tiles before, adjacent ones to the one I'm prising off always break, but I've never tried cutting through the grout first.
Can it be done?
And there are other tiles in other places where rapping with a knuckle produces an ominously hollow sound.
It may be, when I do a proper check of all of them that the situation is so dire that I think "**** it", and just have the whole lot re-done.
But OTOH, if it's just that 3-tile wide section, and a few random others, how feasible is it to cut right through the grouting with a Dremel or a Fein and remove just the dodgy ones?
I'm not so worried about getting those ones off undamaged, as I think I have enough spares, but if I do go for that I'd want to avoid breaking the neighbouring ones.
When I've removed tiles before, adjacent ones to the one I'm prising off always break, but I've never tried cutting through the grout first.
Can it be done?