Removing tiles from plasterboard. if you are refurbishing your kitchen or bathroom and the walls are plasterboard, tile removal can be a real headache. The wall may be dry lined (dot and dab), in other words the board is stuck to block work or brickwork with a very sticky plaster like substance which hardens very
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if you are refurbishing your kitchen or bathroom and the walls are plasterboard, tile removal can be a real headache.
The wall may be dry lined (dot and dab), in other words the board is stuck to block work or brickwork with a very sticky plaster like substance which hardens very quickly providing a solid base for the board.
Or it may be stud work, timber or metal uprights and horizontal bars which the board is nailed or screwed to.
Either way, it is a plasterboard wall, Once the tiles have been stuck on, they are a bugger to get off without damaging the plaster board.
What I have found, if the tiles don`t simply ping off, I use my battery hammer drill, which has a “kango” mode, nos spin, I use a chisel bit to hammer loads of indents into the tile, being careful not to go straight through the tiles. The tiles then disintegrates and you can scrape off the excess tile and adhesive on the board.
It is not easy but saves the board from being replaced. You ,may need to skim the surface or just fill the holes.
Goggles and gloves are a must for this method.
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