Removing Tile From Drywall

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Removing tile from drywall. Once the drywall surface is ready new tiles can be attached with tile adhesive or mastic. Tile grout and thinset mortar are cement based materials and are more difficult to remove than drywall mud. Grout and mortar are not water soluble so the soak and scrape method as you might do for drywall compound will not work here. Also grout and mortar are gritty and can scratch the polished surface of a bathtub.

With the proper tools and care it still won t be easy but it will be possible to get the tile off and salvage it by. In preparation i spent more time researching tiling than removing old tile. The key is not using the wall for leverage. Ceramic wall tiles provide an easy to clean surface for kitchen backsplashes and bathroom walls.

Once you have it damages the drywall behind. A well installed tile job on drywall is not meant to be easy to remove. How to remove ceramic wall tile without damaging drywall. Score the 1st tile you plan on starting with using the grout cutter.

The use of the right tools and materials combined with some elbow grease will remove most tile adhesives from drywall. Our tiles were pretty thick and attached to a thin cardboard sheet. This will further loosen the tile reducing the chances of you damaging the drywall behind it when you start removing the tile from the wall. This video demonstrates an easy way to remove glued on tile while keeping drywall damage to a minimum.

Fortunately drywall is relatively easy to replace. The adhesive bonding the tile will at a minimum pull the paper off the drywall and it may pull out some of the gypsum core in places. Removing tile adhesive from drywall is not an impossible process. Most likely though if the tiles were installed onto drywall the drywall will be damaged during removal.

I learned the hard way how easy it is to damage the drywall behind. However it is unlikely that removing the adhesive will leave the drywall looking like new. You can try methods to minimize the damage but in the end you re probably going to have to do some drywall repair.