Any Advice From the Floor Guys

[BigRichard]

Originally Posted by Wilson8

1. If you can afford to hire a professional, you should.
2. Contact tile stores or consult Angi's list to find someone to do work.
3. If you still plan to do this yourself, you can't save the backerboard. You have to take it up. It is very important to have a nice level surface to put your new tile on.
4. Get several empty cardboard boxes, not too big, because you have to be able to pick them up for the old pieces of tile and backerboard to be thrown into.
5. Hang some plastic sheets to keep the dust and dirt away from other parts of house.
6. Others have described tools or ways to take up tile. I don't think you should have to take up your sub floor.
7. If the floor was installed properly, the backerboard will have a layer of thinset on the underside.
8. You have to break and pop up the old marble tile. Unscrew the backerboard. Take up the backerboard and get floor level.
9. Be sure to wear eye protection and gloves because broken tile is very sharp.
10. Use hammer, crowbar, chisel. You can damage and split floor joists if you use too big of a hammer.

Good luck!

I have done tile before and done a very good job I just never had to tear old tile up. I completely gutted the bathroom in the picture and that is what I did. Turned out beautiful. Even if things take me a long time I prefer to do them myself when it comes to my house as I know I am doing it right.

For dumping I am actually going to bring my tractor up here and just throw it all in the bucket and take it down to my dumpster on my business property. Won't need to do much to haul it







Tile saw blade in my circular saw is working wonders.

On a side note the idiots that layed this marble used ****ing nails on the cement board and not screws. I suspect a lot of shit is half assed in the house. We had a hallway that was creaky as shit and after trying to drive about 300 screws into the damn thing I finally wwnt out and got some 5" x 3/8" lag bolts and drilled up through the 2x4 in the walls(had marked them by drilling little pilot holes down stairs and filled them later) and ran those bolts up through the basement. I went down the hallway and did it to about 6 2x4's and got the floor to quit moving.