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need to replace about 300 sq. ft. of ceramic flooring. What is the best method of removing ceramic tiles, they are attached to a wooden sub floor, with a thin set mortor. Was planning on scraping out the grout and slipping a pry bar under the tiles, then trying to pop then out, in what ever size pieces they come. any ideas or tips would be appreciated. Also was planning to scrap the sub floor as best as possible to remove any remaining mortor and covering that with a new sub floor. Any thoughts on that.
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Wearing safety glasses and work gloves, take a #4 sledge and start pounding the tiles. You are not trying to shatter them, merely breaking the bond to the subfloor. Now, use a straight hoe, floor scraper, or spade to pry up the loose tiles. Put in wheelbarrow and dump in neighbor's yard. Scrape perpendicular to woodgrain to remove residue adhesive. Spread this liberally around other neighbor's front door. Sit back and watch the fun.
*Since its bonded to the wood sub-floor I'd think it should come up pretty easy. This should allow you to get it all in the neighbors yard before they come home from work. If you can get the residue adhesive off fairly well you can probably install backerboard.( Im trying to be vauge here, can you tell?) Your safest solution, if your are left with alot of stubborn ridges of adhesive, would be to float the floor. That's what I'd do...float it. Plus, since your neighbor will be so happy with your gift of free tile Im sure he/she will volunteer mix the deck mud as a return favor!!Dave
*But don't bother scraping the grout out. It will come up when you destroy the tile.
*If the floor is sound then you may be able to install new ceramic tile directly over your old tile.Joe the Yahoo Duncan
*You can get under them with a wonderbar and start popping them up. after that ordeal try scraping up as much mortar as you can with a floor scraper. Then either pour on the floor leveler and screw down the backer board or (the less desired method) level the wood floor and go from there. And about the neighbor's yard, be careful, he never cleans up after that noisy mutt.