Dangerous wall tile removal method - GIF

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Dangerous wall tile removal method.




Previously:

How to set tiles correctly - GIF
Laying tiles around an arc - GIF
Removing floor tiles with a torch - GIF
Tools for laying large tiles - GIF

[Frank S]

I've never seen an entire wall lose adhesion. That had to have been a Friday afternoon hurry up I've got a cold one with my name on it install.

[metric_taper]

Why would you break all this expensive ceramic tile, I guess that's the hoarder in me, and I don't like tile anywhere in my home, but damn, why destroy something you could sell. And the language seems like a culture from my great, great grand parents move to here, and they would not waste such material, and that meme was passed on down to me.

[Frank S]

Why would you break all this expensive ceramic tile, I guess that's the hoarder in me, and I don't like tile anywhere in my home, but damn, why destroy something you could sell. And the language seems like a culture from my great, great grand parents move to here, and they would not waste such material, and that meme was passed on down to me.

With the adhesive having already failed there doesn't appear to have much of a way to remove the tile without most of it breaking.
Recently the interlocking tile I have on the corner walls behind my wood stove had come loose after 10 years of being heated from the stove The heat-resistant thin set adhesive I had used just wasn't up to the task of lasting forever. My wife and I spent a whole day trying to remove then without them falling 24 tiles on 2, 5 ft by 5 ft walls the only thing that was holding them in place was gravity and the mantle pieces. then 2 days of grinding the thin set off the cement backer boards and the backes of the tiles. Might have almost been better to do like that guy did. The $25.00 per tile $30.00 per backer board was the deciding factor though.

[Hoosiersmoker]

Fast removal but big, slow cleanup! I would have opted for one at a time removal intact stacked on a trolley then dumped (or resold)