Removing Tile From Drywall

Tile grout and thinset mortar are cement based materials and are more difficult to remove than drywall mud.

Removing tile from drywall.

Once the drywall surface is ready new tiles can be attached with tile adhesive or mastic. This video demonstrates an easy way to remove glued on tile while keeping drywall damage to a minimum. Run the gout cutter around the tile edges in the grout area. However it is unlikely that removing the adhesive will leave the drywall looking like new.

This will further loosen the tile reducing the chances of you damaging the drywall behind it when you start removing the tile from the wall. Removing tile adhesive from drywall is not an impossible process. Also grout and mortar are gritty and can scratch the polished surface of a bathtub. Ceramic wall tiles provide an easy to clean surface for kitchen backsplashes and bathroom walls.

A well installed tile job on drywall is not meant to be easy to remove. With the proper tools and care it still won t be easy but it will be possible to get the tile off and salvage it by. Then make and x motion within the tile with the tile cutter. Grout and mortar are not water soluble so the soak and scrape method as you might do for drywall compound will not work here.

Our tiles were pretty thick and attached to a thin cardboard sheet. Score the 1st tile you plan on starting with using the grout cutter. Fortunately drywall is relatively easy to replace. How to remove ceramic wall tile without damaging drywall.

Once you have it damages the drywall behind. The use of the right tools and materials combined with some elbow grease will remove most tile adhesives from drywall. The key is not using the wall for leverage. In preparation i spent more time researching tiling than removing old tile.

I learned the hard way how easy it is to damage the drywall behind. Since they are available in a wide. You can try methods to minimize the damage but in the end you re probably going to have to do some drywall repair.