How To Take Off Floor Tiles

Remove baseboards or trim work around the room.

How to take off floor tiles.

Floor scrapers strippers. Remove any appliances or built in furniture like cabinets if possible. Here s how to remove the baseboards. Angle grinders shop product.

Remove ceramic tile from plywood if the tile is stuck to plywood the strategy is a little different. To protect your walls place the wood block a few inches above the baseboard. Chip out a single row of tile down the length of the floor and another row across the width with the intersection of the two rows somewhere in the middle of your floor. Before installing any new tile or flooring you may need to remove old or damaged tile and mortar.

Baseboards generally cover the edges of flooring so they will need to be removed before you remove vinyl flooring. To remove floor tile start by finding a spot on the floor where the grout is coming loose or the tile is chipped away. Belt sanders shop product. When tile is removed it is frequently a two part process.

Circular saws shop product. Tools ball peen hammers shop product. To learn how to remove the mastic or thinset after removing tile go here to my other video. Removing the glue from floors after a tile removal.

How to remove tile. However if they were set in mortar follow these steps for proper tile flooring removal. First the tile itself is taken up either cut pried or chiseled from the floor. Place the wider end of the prybar where the trim and wall meet.

The easiest fastest and most efficient way to remove tile. Then hold the chisel under the loose tile at a 30 degree angle and hit it with a mallet to separate the tile from the ground. Hit the tile in the center with a hammer. Break up the first tile with a hammer.

If there are no cracks or loose grout you can hit a tile with the chisel so that it breaks.