Flooring Tile - removing tile from above counter top
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03-11-01, 10:52 AM
Purchased 33 year old home with probably 30 year old backsplash tile. Some are loose and coming down. What do I need to do in order to remove and use wallpaper instead? How do I prepare the wall underneath these tiles, provided I can get them down as easily and several that are loose.
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03-12-01, 06:46 PM
dgrib,
I'm doing a similar project. My kitchen had tile on all the walls about half way up, around 30 years old, and in bad shape. I started removing it to replace and here is what I found out.
Even though some tiles are lose, there are still those that are on fairly well. A wide puty knife will pop them off with a little effort. The wall will be a mess when your done. In some spots the glue will remain, in others the glue, and part of the paper it was stuck to will come off. So the surface your left with will be anything but good.
In your case after you get the tile off you would probably have to go over the area two or three times with a skim coat of joint compound and a wide (10 or 12") knife. With luck after a quick sanding the surface will be fairly smooth. Prime it and prep fr the wall paper.
The concern here is that any problem on the wall surface will probably show through the wall paper, unless you use one of those thick textured papers.
Maybe you could try to stick the lose tile back, skim coat the tile to smooth the surface out, prime with a good cover up primer like 'BIN', and wallpaer over that. Of course it make not stick well to the tile in the end.
Either way good luck. It unfortunatly is going to take a bit of time to get a good job out of this. In my case since I have such a large area that skim coating would be tough (at least for me) I'm just going to quickly apply 1 skim coat, then covering everything with a texture paint (kinda like stucco). That stuff hides everything.
I'm doing a similar project. My kitchen had tile on all the walls about half way up, around 30 years old, and in bad shape. I started removing it to replace and here is what I found out.
Even though some tiles are lose, there are still those that are on fairly well. A wide puty knife will pop them off with a little effort. The wall will be a mess when your done. In some spots the glue will remain, in others the glue, and part of the paper it was stuck to will come off. So the surface your left with will be anything but good.
In your case after you get the tile off you would probably have to go over the area two or three times with a skim coat of joint compound and a wide (10 or 12") knife. With luck after a quick sanding the surface will be fairly smooth. Prime it and prep fr the wall paper.
The concern here is that any problem on the wall surface will probably show through the wall paper, unless you use one of those thick textured papers.
Maybe you could try to stick the lose tile back, skim coat the tile to smooth the surface out, prime with a good cover up primer like 'BIN', and wallpaer over that. Of course it make not stick well to the tile in the end.
Either way good luck. It unfortunatly is going to take a bit of time to get a good job out of this. In my case since I have such a large area that skim coating would be tough (at least for me) I'm just going to quickly apply 1 skim coat, then covering everything with a texture paint (kinda like stucco). That stuff hides everything.