Romoving Floor Tiles With Wire U/f Heating

[mikeyd859]

Hi guys,
Just been to look at a job and I have been asked to remove a tile with a small crack in it.
It has free wire u/f heating apparently.
I have never had to do this before. I know that the wire is pretty hard wearing but I just wondered if there are any decent ways of getting it up without damaging the cable.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Tile seller]

There a risk of breaking the wire here which would be a disaster just to replace one tile.

The only thing I can think of is to break the tile up into small pieces and try and get a chisel directly under these bits to try and insure that you don't get a lump of substrate up with the wire in it.
I guess it all hinges on how easy it comes up but of course you wont know that until you start.

 

[Diggy]

I've done it by carefully breaking up the tile first with hammer and bolster , then to get rid of the adhesive I've used the carbide sanding plate ( triangle one ) on my fein. Slow but its safer than walloping the floor.

Diggy

 

[Dave]

As above posts really , go gentle and cross your fingers and your toes if it helps lol...

 

[mikeyd859]

cheers, ill give it a blast. I will try and persuade them against it though. will an alert come up on the stat screen if I nip a wire or anything?? think its a 3ie warmup

 

[cam_low]

if it is a warmpup wired kit and if you break the wire, warmup will come out and fix this so ensure the customer is aware of this.

I think they charge a colossal £270 ish to do this. I could be wrong though...

 

[Ian]

Was this your job originally?

 

[Dan]

It's more hassle than it's worth usually. Cable wire systems have halved in the last 10 years. Makes it more per meter in labour pulling it up!