Hello!

[Infantiler]

I've been browsing for a while and thought I should say hi!

Just started my first bathroom/tiling job in the en-suite - is it even possible to remove tiles from plaster board without damaging the board?! Decided quite early on that even being extra careful didn't guarantee keeping the board in tact, so new boards going up. Didn't help matters that the previous fitter didn't seal the mixer for the shower and the board was water damaged. Fell apart!!! Doh!

First question is with regard to plasterboard - I've removed one sheet which formed one side of the shower cubicle and came out to an external corner. There appears to be a metal corner joint on the external corner, my question is am I ok to reuse this? or is it best to pull it off and start afresh?

Great forum btw, some of the work you guys do is fantastic. Not sure if it's inspiring or demoralising, though! Haha!

Cheers.

 

[White Room]

Hi and welcome....are the boards fixed to a metal system ????

 

[Infantiler]

No mate, just to studwork. Best way I can describe it is as a piece of very thin perforated angle. Presume it's to give strength to the joint where the two boards meet.

 

[Ian]

That'll be the edging bead, they're used to get clean edges around external corners and around windows, they only cost a couple of quid per length so just scrap the old ones.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

:welcome: to the forum

 

[Infantiler]

That'll be the edging bead, they're used to get clean edges around external corners and around windows, they only cost a couple of quid per length so just scrap the old ones.

Legend, cheers!

Im used to working with tools, but relatively new to bashing houses! Steep learning curve, mainly with terminology!

 

[Infantiler]

:welcome: to the forum

Cheers dude :hurray:

 

[Muse2k8]

Brilliant username welcome to the forum!

 

[gamma38]

Hi, the best thing to do is try using a job specific tile removing tool, manual or electric. If this doesn't work IE the plasterboard starts to break down or just comes away from the wall, then stop messing around trying to remove the tiles and just remove the lot, a new sheet of plasterboard is cheap. To be fair I don't even try to remove tiles anymore I always remove the substrate, then you know what your dealing with when you fit the new boards on the wall. It is usually quicker and cheaper to do it this way as well.

 

[DHTiling]

Hi and welcome.

 

[Infantiler]

Cheers lads, thanks for the welcome!

 

[bugs183]

If you're going to do a pukka job, remove all the plasterboard, hacking off tiles is a vile dusty and bloomin nasty job (lots of cuts and tile splinters, chances are you'll bust the boards up anyway). Replace with Marmox boarding, go on 'insulation express' its the cheapest i've found for Marmox. Totally waterproof (tape the joints in the shower with waterproof tape), easy to cut and doesn't cost much more than plasterboard.