Damaged plaster

[Glyndwr]

Hi all,

i'm an amateur DIYer trying to remove the tiles from my kitchen wall, i've been chisling them off and i'm finding that when the tiles are coming off they're taking part of the plaster away with them, it's an old kitchen. Am i doing something wrong with removing them? Also there's still a lot more to go, but it's only from the work top four tiles in height, but they go around 2 walls, if that makes any sense is it easy enough to buy some plaster and re plaster the damaged part of the wall myself?

Any advice would be appreciated, cheers

Glyn!

[penno]

Doing nothing wrong mate, there is a dam good chance that plaster will come off with the old tiles.
What are you planning on doing with the walls once the old tiles are off? As in are you re tiling it?

[Dan]

I agree. That just means the correct adhesive has been used and they've been on for a while.

If the plaster isn't thick that's coming off, save some of the old cleaner tiles that come off and as you tile it stick in bits of tiles where you can to pack the adhesive out a little more. Fidly but very possible if it's only chunks missing.

[-silent-]

if i were you i would just carry on dont worry about the plaster just get the tiles off

then patch the plaster with browning or bonding and pva the plaster

and if you need to you could overskim with some mutifinish if your new tiles wont becovering the patched plaster


hope i made some sense to you

[Fekin]

Originally Posted by -silent-

then patch the plaster with browning or bonding and pva the plaster

If your tiling it again do not pva the plaster, use an acrylic primer if the plaster needs anything at all, all depends on if your tiling it again, and what adhesive you'd be using, which I would presume is yes ?

[Glyndwr]

Cheers guys, thanks for the quick response! Yep i shall be tiling over the same area once i'm done. The ammount of plaster coming off isn't too bad, just patches. What's a good adhesive to use over the plaster?

Thanks again

[devonmark]

as you are tiling again, you could always use one coat plaster from wickes, as it's a finishing plaster you can tile straight onto it...it can go on upto 25mm...Mark.

[Fekin]

If it's just a splashback then I would guess your using standard tiles, ie not heavy thick marble then Bal's bluestar would be a good adhesive to use, if ceramics are being fixed.

If for any reason you are going to be using cement based powder adhesive then the walls need to be primed with acrylic primer first, "stops bad reactions with the plaster and cement based adhesives" then tiled.

[Glyndwr]

Awesome, cheers guys!