Ripping the entire substrate away is much faster than removing the tiles piece by piece and if the substrate is a material like drywall it s probably going to be destroyed anyway.
How to remove old tile from shower walls.
Your demo was so neat and tamed.
And i don t care what any one says demo sucks.
Consider tearing apart shower walls.
Messy back breaking work.
I sadly made this same mistake redoing my bathroom and had to spend an all nighter removing old drywall and putting up cement backer board.
Since they are available in a wide.
Our shower room needs revamping.
Removing wall tiles is different and more difficult than removing floor tiles because wall tiles are typically set very close together with minimal grout lines.
I hope you will follow me through the proc.
This means that it takes more care to remove a wall tile without damaging the surrounding tiles.
Shower tiles are usually installed over drywall and or thin backerboard over drywall.
The only way the old tile was coming out of my bathroom was with a sledge hammer.