Remove glazed tiles from gib with out damage

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#243084 26-Nov-2018 12:56

I need to remove glazed tiles from a bath we are replacing with a free-standing bath. And I don't want to damage the existing plasterboard do I need to scrape the grout out from the tiles and work from there?

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#2134399 26-Nov-2018 13:00

I think you're stuffed. That tile glue is pretty good.

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#2134406 26-Nov-2018 13:08

The amount of time you'll spend trying to carefully pry the tiles off the gib without damage isn't worth it. You might get a few off but eventually one will take a piece of gib with it. Save yourself the time and hassle and just rip into it and replace the gib.

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#2134412 26-Nov-2018 13:16

When I read the title I assumed you wanted to preserve the tiles. Gib isn't worth saving. It's dirt cheap.

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#2134420 26-Nov-2018 13:25

I've gone though this exercise recently. I needed to salvage some wall tiles and found that they were too fragile to lever off without breaking too many. I could not buy any more so took the tiles and gib off the wall. After soaking in a bucket the gib was easy to remove. If your tiles aren't well glued they may come off but unless you remove the grout 1st you are likely to chip the edge of the adjacent tile. I used a hacksaw blade to cut the section of gib out along a grout line. Make sure there's no pipes or wiring in the wall.

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#2147805 19-Dec-2018 14:24

It's possible to save the tiles but not the GIB. In addition to the grout between the tiles, the back surface is glued to the GIB board.

Good idea to replace the GIB with aqualine version.

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#2147814 19-Dec-2018 14:48

Gib is cheap, true - but fixing, stopping, etc is not necessarily trivial - especially if matching up to existing gib. However in this case that's probably academic.

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