Removing Polystyrene Roof Tiles

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.

Removing polystyrene roof tiles. Slide your wide scraper between the ceiling. The ease of removing polystyrene ceiling tiles is inversely proportional to the diligence and quantity of adhesive with which they were applied. Polystyrene tiles used to cover ceiling in bedroom image courtesy of homedecorinterior info. The tiles came off easily enough but the glue used to put them up is still on the ceiling.

Use the scraper to remove the adhesive off the ceiling. It is all spread around the ceiling in patches. Removing polystyrene tiles or styrofoam tiles as they are sometimes known from walls or ceilings can be a tedious job and unfortunately there is no easy way of doing it other than getting stuck in with a wide scraper to scrape the tiles off. I had to remove the polystyrene ceiling tiles throughout the entire house and i manage to make it painless and fast.

Working with roof tiles is a lot easier when you know a couple of basic tricks. Then ceiling needs to be bonded with a pva such as unibond then plaster useing two coats lay first coat on as tidy as poss then close in with top coat and trowel to a smooth finsh make sure you run water brush round all angles so they are nice and clean and smooth hope some help kind regards col. 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. This video from bunnings shows you how to take a tile off and replace it prop. Use the steam to loosen the adhesive that remains on the ceiling. My bathroom ceiling had polystyrene ceiling tiles which i have just removed as i am having a complete bathroom re fit.

Before you get down to it you need to get the room ready for what is a major and messy job.