Scraping Up Ceramic Tile

Scrape up as much of the adhesive as you can with the putty knife while the adhesive is still soft.

Scraping up ceramic tile.

When you remove that floor covering to make way for new flooring you may encounter the mastic and wonder whether it is safe to remove the main concern surrounding this question is that black mastic often contains asbestos. Remove the loose pieces of tile and use the hammer to wedge the chisel under surrounding tiles to pry them up. It includes one high carbon steel blade and uses qep 7 in. If they don t come up easily break and clean out an area of tile large enough to accommodate the floor scraper and use it to force the tiles up.

Use the chisel to chip out the rest of the tile place the cold chisel in the grout line at the edge of the tile and start chipping it out. Ceramic porcelain marble and mosaic tiles for walls and floors can be removed by hand with the aid of a chisel and small 2 lb sledgehammer for instance but this can be a tiring job and doing it this way is time consuming and very hard work. Cut a diagonal line across it with a utility knife and use a putty knife to pry up the pieces. Once this first tile is removed place the chisel against the bottom edge of adjacent tiles apply pressure with your hammer and the tiles should pop up easily image 2.

To break a tile hit it firmly in the center. Then fire it up and let the machine do the dirty work for you. Common in homes built in the 20th century black mastic was used as an adhesive for ceramic tile linoleum and other flooring materials. Remove the tile break up the first tile with the blunt edge of a hammer image 1 and then use a chisel to pry up the remainder of the first tile.

Scraper replacement blade model 75007q sold separately. Hit the tile in the center with a hammer. But some rental machines accept an optional tile chisel. Its solid welded construction gives this scraper and stripper superior stability and toughness.

Insert the blade of the scraper under the loosened edge of the flooring and lift up on the handle. Remove the flooring with a hand held floor scraper after putting on work gloves. If your rental store offers that feature just remove the wide scraper blade slide in the chisel attachment and secure it with the bolt and washer. Ordinary floor scraper blades won t stand up to ceramic or porcelain tile.

Manufactured with a high carbon steel blade it effectively rips up concrete marble ceramic tile wood floors roofing asphalt and tile. The edges of broken tile can be very sharp so work carefully and cover surfaces with a drop sheet for protection.