Removing Polystyrene Roof Tiles

Hi remove tiles just bye scraping of next scrap of as much tile adehesive as poss.

Removing polystyrene roof tiles. The tiles came off easily enough but the glue used to put them up is still on the ceiling. Working with roof tiles is a lot easier when you know a couple of basic tricks. Step 1 removing the tiles save yourself the arm pain by over stretching on a ladder and attempting to push these tiles off the ceiling in a jerky back and forth motion instead take a wide scraper and use a hammer to gently but forcefully break the bond between the tile and glue pushing them down from the ceiling as you go. Set up a sturdy stepladder in one corner of the room.

You may be lucky and find that they come off. My bathroom ceiling had polystyrene ceiling tiles which i have just removed as i am having a complete bathroom re fit. Slide your wide scraper between the ceiling. Because of different glues available to install polystyrene ceiling tiles.

Heat is the only fast way to remove the. It is all spread around the ceiling in patches. Use the scraper to remove the adhesive off the ceiling. This video from bunnings shows you how to take a tile off and replace it prop.

I had to remove the polystyrene ceiling tiles throughout the entire house and i manage to make it painless and fast. Then ceiling needs to be bonded with a pva such as unibond then plaster useing two coats lay first coat on as tidy as poss then close in with top coat and trowel to a smooth finsh make sure you run water brush round all angles so they are nice and clean and smooth hope some help kind regards col. Polystyrene tiles used to cover ceiling in bedroom image courtesy of homedecorinterior info. Before you get down to it you need to get the room ready for what is a major and messy job.

Getting rid of the remaining adhesive.