subject: Learning How To Remove Floor Tiles [print this page] It is never easy to remove ceramic floor tiles because they are meant to be permanent floor entity. You will probably not be able to save the removed tiles to reuse. However, if you are really up to the task of removing the original tiles and do not mind damaging them, there will be a way to remove ceramic tiles off your floor. There are different procedures done to remove ceramic tiles from floor base depending on how it was installed.
When you are about to remove ceramic tiles installed on a concrete base that are set with mastic, you need to break the grout surrounding them with simple tools like hammer and cold chisel. After which, you can break the tiles with your sledgehammer then slid a long handled floor scraper beneath the edge of the tiles before you push forward. The ceramic tiles should peel off the concrete base.
After the ceramic tiles have peeled off, you should scrape off any mastic residue left on the floor base then clean the entire area. On the other hand, if you are removing ceramic floor tiles set with Thin set on concrete, you need to have a power-chipping hammer available and you can get one from tool rental stores. This is needed before you can break up the grout surrounding the tiles unlike when the tiles were just set with mastic.
Many companies that are good in removal of floor tile Tampa has would provide services like removing ceramic tiles off your floor and can handle this delicate job for you. But, for self-doers, you can remove ceramic tiles with effort. If you are removing ceramic floor tiles on a backer board base, it will require you to remove both the backer board and the ceramic tiles.
After this you can start on one edge and gently remove the grout surrounding the tiles with basic hammer and chisel. You will be able to remove the tiles as soon as you are done removing the grout. Many projects of flooring Sarasota has involves removing 3-4 tiles in a section, which gives you around 6x6 area of the backer board exposed then you can use a hammer to pulverize the board.
You need to be careful about pulverizing the board since this will expose the subfloor. If you are not sure how to do this, you better start to contact a good company on floor tile Tampa has.
