been working at home today, prepping hallway floor for a herring bone pattern floor tile, well obviously floor has to be flat as a mill pond, it had a bitumen/asphalt type screed wich I started to take up, started well, topping was about 10mm thick and breaking like treacle toffee,but it soon thinned down to about 1-2mm, brick,scutching hammer,mutt,mattock would not touch it this thin.went into shed to see if I could find anything else, and there staring at me was my nice sharp kindling axe, what the hell, i thought,lets have a go with it! Brilliant, flew through the stuff,even where it was less than 1mm thick.
Has anybody else improvised a tool that was not meant for a tiling job?

Gets rid of the black glue Flamethrowers at night - Demonstration of several weapons in action at the time - on ...

couldn't find one in my shed tho'!!

Anyone seen any WW2 colour footage of the US troops using these in Ikanowa when they were taking it back from the Japanese towards the end of the war?

The Japanese were experts at geurilla warfare, jumping out from being bushes to take the invading GI troops down, so the US just equipped their troops with these to torch the vegetation in front of them, together with anything hiding in them.

Originally Posted by doug boardley

Has anybody else improvised a tool that was not meant for a tiling job?

I have on numerous occasions used a credit/debit card to scrape the wax of tiles(usually parmesa)why they need to make it stick so fast is beyond me.

i regularly use a hand held vice i made at school to smack things or break things up and always carry it in my tool bag cause it always comes in handy for something(although never used it as a vice!not sure it ever worked!!)