How To Remove Old Tile From Shower Walls

Consider tearing apart shower walls.

How to remove old tile from shower walls.

I sadly made this same mistake redoing my bathroom and had to spend an all nighter removing old drywall and putting up cement backer board. Ripping the entire substrate away is much faster than removing the tiles piece by piece and if the substrate is a material like drywall it s probably going to be destroyed anyway. Shower tiles are usually installed over drywall and or thin backerboard over drywall. And i don t care what any one says demo sucks.

Messy back breaking work. So in this video i will show you the part 1 where i removed the bathroom tiles. This means that it takes more care to remove a wall tile without damaging the surrounding tiles. Your demo was so neat and tamed.

The only way the old tile was coming out of my bathroom was with a sledge hammer. I hope you will follow me through the proc. How to remove ceramic wall tile without damaging drywall. Removing wall tiles is different and more difficult than removing floor tiles because wall tiles are typically set very close together with minimal grout lines.