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Removing Ceramic Tile
Posted on 6/30/14 at 8:55 am
Posted on 6/30/14 at 8:55 am
Whats the best tool to use? I'm looking at renting something from Home Depot that will make this a bit easier than using a sledge hammer. The area is about 1500 sq ft.
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Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:01 am to slapahoe
When you go to home depot to rent the machine, pick up some Jose labor also...
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:03 am to slapahoe
a rotary hammer and a chisel bit will do it unless its set in a mortar bed. get an area started then run the bit at a slight angle to the subfloor and just push it forward
let the bit do the work
let the bit do the work
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:05 am to slapahoe
I suggest hiring someone that is hard messy work especially if you've never done it before there will be so much dust
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:08 am to slapahoe
quote:I don't know what you do for a living, but do that....and let someone else handle that lil ol chore.
The area is about 1500 sq ft.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:09 am to slapahoe
Just did this.
Watch your slab with the power chisel.
Plain old hammer and chisel worked best. Sledge hammer not going to do shite with the pieces still mortared to the ground. ITS A JOB.
Ended up paying someone 2.50/sq ft bc it sucked so bad.
1500 sq ft? You might want to think ab disposal. You can't just do trash bags at the curb.
Watch your slab with the power chisel.
Plain old hammer and chisel worked best. Sledge hammer not going to do shite with the pieces still mortared to the ground. ITS A JOB.
Ended up paying someone 2.50/sq ft bc it sucked so bad.
1500 sq ft? You might want to think ab disposal. You can't just do trash bags at the curb.
This post was edited on 6/30/14 at 9:12 am
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:39 am to slapahoe
quote:
The area is about 1500 sq ft.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:49 am to slapahoe
Roto hammer with chisel point but I would just hire someone else b/c it is not an easy task.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:53 am to Capital Cajun
Guess I'll hire this job out 
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:02 am to slapahoe
I laid tile for about 10yrs.
Before hiring someone i woulf take hammer and 4" wide chisel and see how easy it comes up. then make the decision if you want to hire it out. about half of the time it will pop right up because they didn't get the dust off the slab before laying
Before hiring someone i woulf take hammer and 4" wide chisel and see how easy it comes up. then make the decision if you want to hire it out. about half of the time it will pop right up because they didn't get the dust off the slab before laying
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:12 am to greasemonkey
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take hammer and 4" wide chisel and see how easy it comes up
I'm not really worried about the tiles themselves but I have read that the thin-set mortar is a bitch to remove because it doesn't just pop off with the tile.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:14 am to slapahoe
u in BR?
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:16 am to greasemonkey
quote:
i woulf take hammer and 4" wide chisel and see how easy it comes up.
Ceramic can come up very easy sometimes.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:20 am to slapahoe
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but I have read that the thin-set mortar is a bitch to remove because it doesn't just pop off with the tile.
Rotary hammer with a scrapper bit
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:43 am to slapahoe
Never removed an entire room, but I've busted up areas that I set and didn't like the way it lined up. Once I got it started and was able to go from an angle with a chisel, it popped up very easily. Used a floor scraper to get the rest of the thin set up.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:46 am to slapahoe
I did about 500sf with a hammer and a flat bar last summer in about 2 nights. Wouldn't have been so bad had the tile not been layed on top of 1965's finest vinyl flooring, which was glued to the subfloor with what can only be described as Satan's epoxy. Looking back on it now, I wish I would have hired it out. Also, someone was spot-on about disposing of it. I'm not sure exactly how much 500sf of tile+mortar/grout weighed, but it was a pain in the arse hauling it all out one 5-gallon bucket at a time, loading on a trailer, then unloading the trailer in a hole at the camp. I wish I would have paid $10-12/sf for someone to come rip it out and lay new flooring.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 11:09 am to tenfoe
I was told that it was fine to lay tile over well secured vinyl, but I didn't want to take any chances and decided to rip up the vinyl first. Terrible mistake. That shite was glued down very well and it took me hours to get all the glue up from a very small area. I ended up taking up what I had already started on and laid the tile on top of the rest. No problems with either. Getting the tile up was easier than getting the vinyl up.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 11:12 am to slapahoe
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Removing Ceramic Tile
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The area is about 1500 sq ft.
I actually passed out in my computer chair just now thinking about this.
This post was edited on 6/30/14 at 11:18 am
Posted on 6/30/14 at 11:14 am to brass2mouth
I would love to replac emy floor. Problem is I also have a buch of tile that would have to be removed. I dread that and the cost. I'll live with what I have
Posted on 6/30/14 at 11:17 am to Crawdaddy
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I would love to replac emy floor. Problem is I also have a buch of tile that would have to be removed. I dread that and the cost. I'll live with what I have
Same.
Its been moved to the bottom of the "get done eventually" list.
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