Help!!!! Tiles falling off wall!

[MARBLE_TONY]

Thought they looked like cotton buds or straws

 

[Lily Swizzle]

Hahahaha... somehow I don't think cotton buds or straws would work.... it would give all you pro tilers a laugh though......

 

[White Room]

You could try to soak your tiles in water to see if the adhesive on the back softens up...

 

[Lily Swizzle]

Do you know whitebeam, that's exactly what I've been doing for the last few hours!! Got a wirey dishwasher thing and a scrubbing brush, (can't find the wire brush - I'm sure I had one once...) and am in the kitchen sink - (tried it in the bathroom sink initially till it started to come away from the wall - that's another problem though - discovered the whole sink was stuck on with Silicon stuff when I took the tiles off - no screws! It's balanced jauntily on the pedestal now till I can get long enough plugs and screws to screw it into the wall!) I've still got about 20 tiles to go..... and the ones still on the wall at the bottom of the bath! Good job I'm home tomorrow - can spend all day at it!

 

[White Room]

Good luck:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Lily Swizzle]

Hello again. All the tiles are now off the wall and I've cleaned the adhesive from the backs - took ages but I'm glad it's done.


I've started removing the paint from the walls. Managed to get most of the blue off with a sander - then I hit some green paint which is proving a right pain to remove - doesn't seem to want to sand off so have resorted to using a wallpaper scraper and it's coming off in fingernail sized pieces. Anyone got any better ideas? At this rate I'll be at it all week!!!





Hope you're still enjoying the pictures and I'm not proving to be too much of a pest!!

 

[Gazzer]

What grit sanding paper are you using. I find a rotary sander more aggressive but you dont want to damage the walls.

 

[Lily Swizzle]

I've got a Black & Decker iron shaped sander with quite harsh red coloured sanding sheets with P40 on the back - don't know if this is the grade or not. They've done a great job at one end of the wall - removed 2 layers of paint to reveal the plaster underneath no problem, it's just the bits painted with 2 layers of green paint which are proving a pain. (And that's most of the wall!) So I've had more joy with a scraper for that - different coloured plastery wall underneath too.

 

[Gazzer]

Well thats pretty coarse grade .

 

[Lily Swizzle]

I guess I'll persevere with the scraper for now then. May give the sander another go later - doesn't half get dusty though - my hair's gone white.....