Browse Forums Kitchen Splashbacks 1 Jan 11, 2011 4:44 pm I'm new to tiling but I'm happy to give it a go. We are removing our old tiles from the kitchen splashback and are having some difficulty. Some of it is tiled over exisiting tiles and the rest is over plasterboard. The trouble is that all the plasterboard is coming off with the tiles. Is it worth just ripping them off and replacing the plasterboard? What a hassle. But I can't imagine making the exisiting plasterboard flat again. The tiles over tiles are slowly coming off but I never realised how tough tile adhesive really is! Re: Tiling splashback advice 3Jan 11, 2011 6:42 pm I have * before with this same problem with a client not wanting to replace plasterboard, but it was villa board (fibre cement) in this case. Most tiling adhesives break once heated up, so simply heat them up with heat gun and they pop straight off. Re: Tiling splashback advice 5Jan 11, 2011 10:26 pm As big of a pain as it may be it is definitely worth replacing the plasterboard. Also if you are doing behind a hot plate, try using fibre-cement behind it instead of plasterboard because the porous tiles will draw in heat. Re: Tiling splashback advice 6Jan 12, 2011 7:28 pm Thanks for the advice, I had suspected that replacing the pasterboard would be the best idea. I hope that our wall is straight enough that the plasterboard will be level. We want to use large format tiles (300x600). Re: Tiling splashback advice 7Jan 24, 2011 12:27 pm My advice if you are a tiling newbie is to make sure that you know where your lighting is going to come from e.g. if you have a rangehood or downlighting, do the tiling with the lights on (or a temp light instead). We had a tile splashback that looked great... until the lights went on - then it looked terrible, because the shadows were enhanced. And that was professional tilers. Re: Tiling splashback advice 8Jan 24, 2011 1:40 pm Good tip river_lucy! Wouldn't have thought of that myself but it makes sense. Re: Tiling splashback advice 9Feb 15, 2011 12:52 pm So replacing plasterboard may not be too hard or expensive, but geez it's messy removing the old stuff! We took down our old tiled splashback on the weekend and the old plasterboard came down with it. We found all sorts of skeletons behind it too. Yuck. So now we have a kitchen full of holes in walls. It looks hideous. Why did I ever think that removing tiles was a good idea? I'll post some before and after pics when we get the new plaster board up. 1 6642 Thanks for replying. In my case, there’s no house for the weather to run back on to. There’s just a free fall to the ground, 3 m below. The balcony has 3 posts at the… 11 21458 just pull up the slate. If you go over the top, your tiles would not have an even surface to be glued to. Im no tiler, but i can imagine a couple of things being an issue… 1 11080 |