Removing Polystyrene Roof Tiles

Heat is the only fast way to remove the.

Removing polystyrene roof tiles.

It is all spread around the ceiling in patches. Slide your wide scraper between the ceiling. The tiles came off easily enough but the glue used to put them up is still on the ceiling. Before you get down to it you need to get the room ready for what is a major and messy job.

Use the steam to loosen the adhesive that remains on the ceiling. Polystyrene tiles used to cover ceiling in bedroom image courtesy of homedecorinterior info. Working with roof tiles is a lot easier when you know a couple of basic tricks. Use the scraper to remove the adhesive off the ceiling.

My bathroom ceiling had polystyrene ceiling tiles which i have just removed as i am having a complete bathroom re fit. Step 1 removing the tiles save yourself the arm pain by over stretching on a ladder and attempting to push these tiles off the ceiling in a jerky back and forth motion instead take a wide scraper and use a hammer to gently but forcefully break the bond between the tile and glue pushing them down from the ceiling as you go. This video from bunnings shows you how to take a tile off and replace it prop. I had to remove the polystyrene ceiling tiles throughout the entire house and i manage to make it painless and fast.

Because of different glues available to install polystyrene ceiling tiles. The ease of removing polystyrene ceiling tiles is inversely proportional to the diligence and quantity of adhesive with which they were applied. Set up a sturdy stepladder in one corner of the room. Hi remove tiles just bye scraping of next scrap of as much tile adehesive as poss.

Getting rid of the remaining adhesive.