Any Advice From the Floor Guys

[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!