If you re lucky tiles will come away in one piece.
How hard is it to remove full wall tile.
The best way to remove the tile and avoid damaging the wall is to invest in or borrow a dremel tool with a grout cutting attachment or purchase a grout saw.
Try and position your chisel between each tile and the wall and then tap it into the crack with your hammer.
4 scrape the grout away with a utility knife.
If you re only managing to scrape away tiny amounts a time spend thirty seconds warming up the grout line and try again.
Follow these steps to complete this home project.
If you re removing your wall or floor tile because it s fallen into disrepair this may actually be to your advantage.
Keep going until you ve removed as much grout as possible.
Step 1 cut away the grout surrounding the tile or tiles that you want to remove.
Tiles installed with thinset or another tile adhesive often require more work to remove them.
It s not hard work and within a couple of minutes you ll remove either all or most of the grout.
If not you ll have to repeat the process for each different piece.
A wide blade putty knife is helpful in prying the tiles loose.
This will make it easier to remove the tiles.
Once those tiles loosen pry them off.
To remove the grout in between tiles run the grout rake up and down then diagonally towards the centre from left and right.
Work slowly and at about a 45 degree angle.
Floor and wall tiles involve a similar removal process although it s often more difficult to protect and save the subsurface during wall tile removal.