My 16 year old son is gonna be busy in the next couple of days. I’m not paying 600 for demo and a 1300 dollar install for a 220 sqft job. These comments are amazing. Thanks for the content.
Going to remove all the hallway tile so when I have hardwood installed it’s the same level as the bedrooms. Always hated the color of the tile anyway so this is a great excuse to remove it. I love demo - SO SATISFYING. I’m a 79 year old lady still love doing what I can myself. I’ll have someone else lay the floors but thx for this video. Now I just need the chisel for my hammer drill.
Just bought a house in Puerto Rico where most old houses are cement. This is so helpful and money saving. So ready for my projects. Thanks for this video. You rock !!!!
Great video. We are taking tile off of out 1/2 bath and our screened in porch. So your video is a great help. Quick question. The screened in porch in our house was built on top of existing tile. These tiles extend out about 5 inches on the outside perimeter of the porch. When we remove the old tile do you think that it is practical to cut the tile around the porch and leave the existing tile sitting under the walls of the porch? Or do you think that we will end up having to pull the tile from underneath? Not sure if my explanation is clear. We are a bit nervous since we've never tackled this before. But the old tile is so bad and raised in places and needs replacing. Thanks for your consideration.
Great video thank you......I used a rental makita probably 3 times the size you did. Used a little bit different bit.....The tile would not come loose ...it would splitter and consequently leave no crack to insert the bit............again..........I did not fracture the tile ( live in a condo second floor). Any suggestion for another way ????? Thank you so much !!!!!!!!
You need to hit the title first with a hammer to fracture it. If you live on the second floor you probably have a wood subfloor with some type of backer board. It’s going to be slightly different to remove. Try getting under the backer board with a large pry bar to break it loose. Good luck
Thanks for doing this video. This is something that I want to attempt, I'm a complete novice, but looks like a small enough project I can get through slowly and carefully for a first timer. What did you call the drill you used, is it a hammer drill with a chisel bit? What I want to accomplish is to remove all the old tile in my laundry room. The original tile was not laid down properly by the previous homeowner and the tile has come loose on most of the floor. I want to remove all the tile, end result would be to paint the concrete floor rather than replace the tiles. What do you use to smooth out the concrete and prep for applying the paint? Thanks so much again!!
It’s a rotary hammer drill that has a chisel setting on it. This is the one I have Help me decide on this product: Makita HR2475 1" Rotary Hammer, accepts SDS-PLUS bits (D-handle) a.co/d/1xxV2Nt
Good video. I was poking around looking for some magic way to remove just one tile, at two different places. When they set them when they did the entire floor there was a couple places where they were very slack about getting the corners to meet at the same level. I reckon just use your method while being very careful not to damage the surrounding tile. I know! If it gets real scary I'll close my eyes.
Exactly what I needed. Trying to get very old tile out of a kitchen and it’s like trying to break granite. I have a hammer drill and I’m about to break up the tiles put the hammer drill to good use.
This is the hammer drill I have. the chisel bits are made to work with this type of drill. it's an SDS-Plus type chuck. Here is the link www.homedepot.com/p/Makita-8-Amp-1-in-Corded-SDS-Plus-Concrete-Masonry-AVT-Rotary-Hammer-Drill-with-4-1-2-in-Corded-Angle-Grinder-with-Hard-Case-HR2641X1/206058492
Are you talking about mastic and redgard. It might be harder to remove. You can still use the same method. It might take longer. Let me know how it goes.
Breaking up the tile in a small area is fine, but in larger areas it becomes a nightmare. Busted tile is extremely heavy and sharp, and you have to take that into consideration with your cleanup. Most contractor bags are rated for like 50 or 60 lbs max which means it doesn't take much tile debris to hit that threshold, not to mention those sharp pieces will slice through those bags like butter. For my home renovation project I was able to get whole pieces of tile up in about 30 seconds with a roto hammer. Less mess and less space taken up with debris
Thats great if the tile wasn’t mortared down very good. In most cases they don’t come out in one piece. You usually have to use 2 contractors bags so they don’t cut through as easy or use 5 gallon buckets to take them out of the house
Question: do you have plywood underneath that? I want to replace the tiles in my foyer and they are sitting on a layer of plywood, followed by what seems to be 1 1/2 layer of concrete
There was no plywood. The tile was on the concrete slab. Someone must have used the plywood to rase the level of the tile to match the floor next to it. Rip all that plywood out and get down to the concrete sub floor. Then you can use self leveling cement to raise the floor back up to where the tile will be flush with the floor next to it. You will have to calculate how much to raise the floor using the thickness of the new flooring.
Are you putting tiles that look like wood? You can put redgard as a crack prevention membrane on the concrete floor make sure to follow all directions on the bucket. Basically it stops cracks the may form in the slab and keeps them from transferring through to the tile. Now if your slab is older and stable and hasn’t seem much moving or cracking then you could tile directly on the concrete.
As long as it’s a thin layers it shouldn’t be a problem. Not sure why that’s happening. You can pour a thin layer of self leveling cement over the slab. That will fill in the uneven floor and make it level for laying the new floor.
I left it on so I could use it. I was replacing it anyway. Sometimes I keep the old toilet bowl around and if I need to go I just set it back on the pipe.
Hmm. Some short sighted Victorian person layed the ceramic tiles into the concrete fire hearth base so that they form part of the fire hearth. It wouldn't be a problem except that it's raised above the level of surrounding floorboards so I can't lay an new oak floor over. This solution will not work for me therefore.
@TheUltimateHandymanKyle I'm literally doing it right now on a renovation for a home I just purchased. Even my 4 LB hammer sometimes has trouble breaking it. To see your 2 LB break through so many so easily tells me that this was a very cheap ceramic tile.
