Help!!!! Tiles falling off wall!

[Lily Swizzle]

Hello, I'm back again. Have an afternoon/evening full of adhesive removal from backs of tiles planned. Have got trusty sander out to sand the walls too after I've scraped some of the paint off. Was thinking ahead and just wondered which adhesive I should go for: Mapei Buildfix Rapid Set Wall Tile Adhesive? Or Mapei Buildfix Single Part Super Flexible Adhesive? Any pros and cons of either? (apart from one is more expensive than the other...)? Am going to get the Mapei Buildfix Plaster Primer to prime the walls first after all the paint is off..... hope this is the right thing to do...... Thanks lovely peeps, it's nice to have some knowledgeable bods to speak to....

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Hi Lily ,if i was you i would go for the Mapei Buildfix Single Part Super Flexible Adhesive,as the fast set might give you a few problems keeping -up with the setting time, looks and sounds like you are having great-fun
keep up the good work and we are loving the pictures :hurray:

 

[Lily Swizzle]

Thanks for the advice! Don't know what I'd do without you guys..... would be in even more of a pickle than I am already!!

 

[MARBLE_TONY]

Can I ask what you are using as spacers there?

 

[Lily Swizzle]

The spacers I'm using aren't the usual cross shaped ones... they're like little tiny plastic tubes about 3cms long and 2mm wide - got them off my bro in law who'd had them for ages and didn't like them.....remind me of those sugar pink panther cigarette sweets they used to sell when I was a kid.....you can't eat them though..... or smoke them, but you can blow through them - don't know if that's an advantage or not... I'm rambling now - must be the tile adhesive......

 

[MARBLE_TONY]

Thought they looked like cotton buds or straws

 

[Lily Swizzle]

Hahahaha... somehow I don't think cotton buds or straws would work.... it would give all you pro tilers a laugh though......

 

[White Room]

You could try to soak your tiles in water to see if the adhesive on the back softens up...

 

[Lily Swizzle]

Do you know whitebeam, that's exactly what I've been doing for the last few hours!! Got a wirey dishwasher thing and a scrubbing brush, (can't find the wire brush - I'm sure I had one once...) and am in the kitchen sink - (tried it in the bathroom sink initially till it started to come away from the wall - that's another problem though - discovered the whole sink was stuck on with Silicon stuff when I took the tiles off - no screws! It's balanced jauntily on the pedestal now till I can get long enough plugs and screws to screw it into the wall!) I've still got about 20 tiles to go..... and the ones still on the wall at the bottom of the bath! Good job I'm home tomorrow - can spend all day at it!

 

[White Room]

Good luck:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Lily Swizzle]

Hello again. All the tiles are now off the wall and I've cleaned the adhesive from the backs - took ages but I'm glad it's done.


I've started removing the paint from the walls. Managed to get most of the blue off with a sander - then I hit some green paint which is proving a right pain to remove - doesn't seem to want to sand off so have resorted to using a wallpaper scraper and it's coming off in fingernail sized pieces. Anyone got any better ideas? At this rate I'll be at it all week!!!





Hope you're still enjoying the pictures and I'm not proving to be too much of a pest!!

 

[Gazzer]

What grit sanding paper are you using. I find a rotary sander more aggressive but you dont want to damage the walls.

 

[Lily Swizzle]

I've got a Black & Decker iron shaped sander with quite harsh red coloured sanding sheets with P40 on the back - don't know if this is the grade or not. They've done a great job at one end of the wall - removed 2 layers of paint to reveal the plaster underneath no problem, it's just the bits painted with 2 layers of green paint which are proving a pain. (And that's most of the wall!) So I've had more joy with a scraper for that - different coloured plastery wall underneath too.

 

[Gazzer]

Well thats pretty coarse grade .

 

[Lily Swizzle]

I guess I'll persevere with the scraper for now then. May give the sander another go later - doesn't half get dusty though - my hair's gone white.....