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Posted by charlie on August 14, 2008, 4:15 pm
>I have a 1940s house in Tucson, kitchen of which was redone in the early
>70s.
> The walls are, near as I can tell, brick with plaster over them (not
> drywall).
>
> There's a lot of ceramic tile on the walls, which is somehow built out
> so it protrudes a full inch from the rest of the wall. We're remodeling
> (doing it
> ourselves). I just tried prying off some tile, and it's extremely
> difficult,
> and then there's the problem of the 3/4 inch of gray mortar behind it
> before I get to the
> plaster.
>
> I think I know the answer to this question, but ... is there any
> reasonably easy way
> to get this stuff off? If not, I'll have to hire a contractor, or we'll
> build out the
> rest of the walls to be even with the tile (a lot of it will get covered
> by the new cabinets).
> The kitchen is small enough that I don't want to lose the width the latter
> would entail, but I really don't want to have weeks of clouds of dust in
> the house
> (it's still hot, house is AC cooled).
>
>
> We had planned on doing the remodel one qnadrant of the kitchen at a time,
> to keep
> it partially functional throughout. This obviously would be impossible
> if e're doing concrete demolition with jackhammers.
>
>
> Thanks -
> Andy Barss
do you care if the plaster gets scarred up? if not, i've found that if you
use a 5" dry diamond blade on a side grinder, you can use the face of it to
remove thinset or mortar from tiles. if you have a light touch, you can do
this almost with no affect on the underlying surface. get a harbor fright
grinder for $15 as it's going to be chewed up by the dust.
it does generate a LOT of dust, and you DO NOT want to breathe this. you'd
have to have a positive ventilation system, and mask off the rest of the
house with plastic sheets to avoid filling up everything with the dust.
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