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Necessary Safety Equipment
When it
comes to removing ceramic tiles there is high risk of eye and body injury from
flying bits of ceramic tiles. Consequently it is critical that you wear
wrap-around safety glasses, or preferably goggles, along with work gloves and
long sleeve shirts and pants.
Tools Required
Before
starting a ceramic tile removal process begin by gathering all of the necessary
tools. Most importantly you will need a hammer and chisel. In addition, you will
need a screw gun, a broom and dustpan, a long handle floor scraper, and a
shop-vac.
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Removing
Ceramic Tile Flooring
First, it
is critical to put on your eye and body protection before starting.
Next, use
your chisel to work out the grout around several of the ceramic tiles near the
edge of the tile area.
Once you
have removed the grout around a few ceramic tiles, position your chisel at a low
angle underneath the base of a tile (preferably a tile near the edge). Use your
hammer to hit the blunt end of the chisel. |
Making
repeated blows with the hammer work the chisel underneath the tile. Sometimes
the tile will easily pop up, and other times it will fracture and splinter.
In the situation where the ceramic tile
fractures and splinters just continue to reposition the chisel underneath the
remaining tile piece and continue to work the tile up off of the backerboard.
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Photo by - Mark Donovan |
Photo by - Mark Donovan |
Continue
this process over the entire ceramic floor tile area, occasionally stopping to
pick up loose tiles and sweep away some of the debris.
Removing Screwed Down Backerboard
Once you
have removed all of the ceramic floor tiles, use a screw gun to remove as many
of the screws as you can from the backerboard. It is important to get as many as
possible, particularly around the edge of the backerboard.
Some of the
screws may not be visible as they are hidden under the remaining mortar/mastic
material. By using your hammer and striking it on the backerboard many times,
you can loosen up some of the mortar/mastic material to expose additional
screws.
Once you
have removed as many of the screws as possible, use your long handle floor
scraper to pry up the backerboard.
To remove
the backerboard with your floor scraper, position the floor scraper at a low
angle underneath the edge of the backerboard and push and twist the handle so
that you lift up the backerboard. Continue with this process until you have
completely removed the backerboard from the subfloor.
Once you
have removed the backerboard, any remaining screws will be fully exposed on the
subfloor. Remove these with your screw gun.
Finally,
dispose of the old ceramic floor tile and subfloor, and sweep and vacuum the
area.
If the
subfloor has significant damage due to the screw holes you can patch them if
desired.
Finally
repair the subfloor if necessary by patching nail or screw holes, and applying a
floor leveling compound if necessary.
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