Hello. I'm about to start tiling my kitchen but after taking the tiles off and scrapping the Walls there is still alot of old adhesive on the wall! What would be the best thing to do? I bulstered some of but it is hard and time consuming. Also what is the best new adhesive to use please.

Cheers

Lewis

Hello. I'm about to start tiling my kitchen but after taking the tiles off and scrapping the Walls there is still alot of old adhesive on the wall! What would be the best thing to do? I bulstered some of but it is hard and time consuming. Also what is the best new adhesive to use please.

Cheers

Lewis

Hey Lewis.

If it's cement based adhesive, a mechanical sander should do the job, if not an old chisel or two and some light tapping with your hand. If it's dispersion adhesive (so probably white/cream in colour) then warm water on a sponge (lots of it) and a scraper should to the job.

You do need to get nearly all of it off to ensure a good key. if it's cement-based and is really really solid, get most of it off. I'd have thought it wouldn't cause you problems down the line if you can't budge it with a chisel and / or a mechanical sander (like a belt sander or similar).

If you have a few quid spare. A fein multimaster from tradetiler.com will do it. Then perhaps re-sell it on here with a small discount with it being used. The lads use the multimaster a lot and all love them. There's a bosch version too that's decent.

Thanks dan that is very helpful I will give them ago before buying anything but very handy tool so will have to pick one up at some point.

Cheers mate

I have removed old addy from a wall best with an orbital sander and then priming. I would prefferebly resheat though.

i cant beat the above advice but will make an offer if your selling the fein.....lol

what are the walls formed with? plasterboard? float and skim? if plasterboard I'd be ripping them out and reboarding.

the walls are skimmed. i wish it was plaster board that would be much better

You'd probably be okay with a rubber mallet and not just your hand then. Use the chisel the right way and it should chip away quite fine on a solid wall with plaster skim without upsetting the skim too much.

The fien's rock. Loads of uses for them. Check the videos out on youtube. Metal, wood, tile, brick, whatever, there's a head for it. Quick-release these days too, the old ones had a flaw in their allen key design.

thanks everyone

What are your walls, plaster, dry linning etc..

What adhesive, tubbed gear or powdered..