Thank you for the tip. This works amazing. 12.99 for a air hammer at rural king and a ball joint tool at harbor freight for 9.99 and I'm filling up trash with bricks and tile with no sweat.
I started with a hammer and crow bar.... took almost 40 mins to get two tiles squares up. Frustrated, I watched this video and decide to pick one of the Kobalt Air Hammer for $40 at Lowe’s in store (you would also need an air compressor). Did my kitchen which is over 120 sq ft in 1 1/2 hours. Tip: would wedge the air hammer chisel under a spot then move over approx a foot with my crow bar and would lift another the other space. Before I knew it, three full tile were coming up at once. Saving me a huge mess and time! Thanks for sharing this video! My tile broke up a little differently but ultimately got me on the right track! I would have quit if I didn’t see this video. Awesome stuff for $40
So glad I just saw this. Planning on taking up the tile in my kitchen and just spent 2 hours on RU-vid watching guy's break it apart with hammers, chisels, pry-bars, etc, Can get both tools at Harbor Freight for around $26. thanks!
Great tip. SHowed my husband and he had the tools. Didn't take long to remove all of the tile in the small bathroom. Now if there was just magic for removing all of the staples we put down the underlayment with.
Awesome!! Thank you for this video. You saved me some $$$. Was going to pay to have tile in my kitchen removed but after watching, I’m going to take a go at it myself. Thank you brother 👍🏽
Personally I wouldn’t. The dust kicked up in this video is toxic because of the materials in the thinset and tile and the dust will end up in your vents and most tile does not fly up that easily. I’m assuming your kitchen is on a concrete slab which adheres tiles pretty well. I’d pay a dustless floor removal company to remove your flooring, trust me it’s worth the money and will save your lungs from silica poisoning
Believe me here in SW Florida when the tile have been installed correctly to the slab subfloor hour and hours are spent with a jack hammer much bigger than that.
Excellent video. I didn't have the air hammer but the video inspired me to try something else. I did go down to the auto store and picked up the ball joint remover but it was not adaptable with my SDS hammer as I hoped. So I used instead the Ryobi SDS Hammer with a tile lifting tool and it worked the same way. Same effect. Again great video.
THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THAT IDEA! We just used the air hammer to pick up 600 sqft I was going to do by hand. I had a $12 air hammer from Harbor freight and bought the tie rod fork for 9.99. My 7yr old son did most with the akr hammer. A few quick pulls of the trigger brought them right up. We went carefully amd pulled as many as we could up whole. A few taps on the opposite side grout and the popped. We actually bought the 4ft air scraper to clean up the thinset left on the ply wood which also made everything go smooth. A good shop vac helped. Thank you again for a great idea. Everyone, make sure you wear goggles/glasses or mask and LEATHER GLOVES. The tile can ne as sharp as glass
two inexperienced "setters". one on video, and you Pl. He removed backer board that wasn't screwed to subfloor. you spoke of removing thinset from PLYWOOD.. BOTH incorrect installs.
This method worked well for me, much better than the electric demolition hammer I rented at Lowes the day before. The only caveat is that the air compressor has to be large enough to drive the air hammer. My small 3 gallon compressor didn't have enough capacity to run it. I borrowed a 6 gallon unit and it worked much better. I still had to let it recover periodically, but it did do the job at a fraction of the price I paid to rent the electric hammer at Loews.
God bless you dude! Simply amazing. Only took a few minutes to get the hang of it. Damn this set up works for me just like it works in this video, and I didn't have a clue of how to do this work before watching your video, Good on ya'! Good karma for all this help. Peace.
Awesome. I was planning a job and wondering if I needed to rent a tool. I can use my automotive tools and save some money. Thanks for the tip. I owe ya.
Funny... when he was using the hammer and chisel he tapped against the sub floor. Then when he uses the air chisel he goes under the tile. I have popped up improperly installed tile with a hammer and chisel just as easily as he did with the air hammer.
Wow 😮 I wish I would’ve saw this video a view years ago when it took FOREVER to hammer and chisel out the tile at the entry of my front door and fire place. I would’ve saved hours of my time and a lot of cleaning 😂😅thank you!!!
How would you rate the air chisel method opposed to the demo hammers SDR I believe. Would you say it does a better job ar removing the thinsrt as well?
Man your right, someone in my house laud tile straight over The linoleum on top of a wood sub floor. My house is on a raise foundation. The used no hardiback just straight fuckin thinset on the old kitchen linoleum. I found this out when i peeled out my living room carpet met the kitchen tile. There’s prolly at least a dozen tiles with cracks in them just from walking on then. They really did a shit job at my place. On top of that under all the carpet was true oak wood from the original build needed a sand and restain looks great
Hey brotha, tile set properly will not come out in full pieces. It will come out in chunks and the thinset mortar on the slab will sit need to be removed. This video should be a narrative on how a tile hack sets tile.
That tile didn't even hardly bond to the thinset, I could hear how hollow it sounded as you chiseled it. A well bonded tile won't sound like that, nor come up in half or full pieces. Whoever laid that tile let the thinset set up too long so the top of the thinset skinned over and didn't grab the tile. Such thinset will press down, but won't adhere to the tile, so you think you're doing the job right but you're not.
Nice tip, electric impact hammer works as well. The pneumatic too, it just doesn't come off this easily every time. So.If you want to make remodelling easier, use the premixed mastic that comes in a bucket. That is what was used on this floor.
It's not that you are doing it the easy way .... it's because it was shit installation to begin with and all the thinset is stuck to the floor and not the tile. Now tell everyone how long it took you to get the thinset up?
Not long with the scraper I described. Its irrelevant how the tile was installed because we are REMOVING IT! Hence the title. Go argue with the people on the, how to put down tile, posts.
Any professional could’ve taken this up with a hammer and 5-in-1 in a quarter of the time it took this guy. Don’t be fooled by this, majority of tile does not pop up this easily especially on concrete unless you have long 2x4 looking tile; that tile always flies up majority of the time but other than that, buy a makita handheld jackhammer with hose and get a shopvac to eliminate dust.
I've got about 400 sqft of tile on concrete slab to remove. In my mind, I'm transmuting the concrete slab into the material that is underneath your tile job. I'd tell the homeowner "I deploy metaphysical techniques - to simplify the job, we have a machine that temporarily changes the physical properties of the concrete slab. Einstein developed it. He made a fortune in physics." Then the homeowner says "All that sounds fine, but what does it mean?" "It means we can use an air compressor, and an air gun with an automotive tie-rod attachment to remove your old tile." The homeowner then says "Will you re-convert the concrete slab back to its old self before you install the new tile?" "Of course", I says. "We're pros." . .
Id like to see that work on the tiles I’m taking up. Mine are stuck down properly, not with flimsy underlay that makes taking them up easy! Stick some tiles direct to concrete then see how well that tool works lol.. (if they as loose as that, a flat bit on a normal hammer drill would do just as well)
When I demo the tile never hits the ground once. Why clean up more than you have too? Clean up is easily 25%-50% of the time spent on site. Typically I enjoy a 5 foot breaker bar and let the leverage take over.
The tiles aren't the problem it's the lining under them unless you wanna sit there with a screw gun and back them all out it's just difficult the easiest way is a jack hammer but that's heavy
The chisel would have worked if you have hit the same location you are going through with air hammer. You were using chisel below thinset while you used air hammer above thinset.
You know, they make Yankee ice scrapper designed ones that you can stand up and use right? then what you do is fire the compressor, get you a kid that need a few bucks and have him go behind you with a wheel barrel and pickem all up. if your handy you can reuse them!
Nobody care about the effort required to remove tiles in pieces. We The People want to know how to selectively remove tiles in one piece... I need to save 6-8 out of the 80 I'm removing...
Dangerous amateur. Improper safety glasses, doesn’t put gloves on till he’s done and no dust mask while chipping up Dash Patch that contains asbestos. Operator error. Failure
