Do You Have To Remove Thinset For Rubber Flooring

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Do you have to remove thinset for rubber flooring.

A thinset installation of tile can be one of the strongest installations possible which is a good thing until you try to take it up. You could use a circ. I found it was much more productive to cut through the grout lines first with an angle grinder and diamond blade. Saw but i didn t have one on hand.

I use a wide cold chisel and hammer to remove the tile. Part of the problem you had was the blade you were given was for removing vinyl tile and adhesive. Thinset is a portland cement product that dries very hard so it will support the tiles and resist cracking on a slight lump better than any premixed mastic tile adhesive or construction adhesive. If you think it is easy to remove tiles or floorings and install the new tiles on the surface then you have never really done the task.

I m thinking about the future if i need to do what you did ripping out the old tile and then left with all that thinset on plywood. Regardless of the method used to remove the tile there will. There are much stouter blades made for removing ceramic tile and thin set. Like the other guy said you must patch it smooth though so your tile sits flat while keep your slop to your flange for drainage to do this a 3 to 1 mudbed mix can be used but skimming patch would be easier very inportant thing is to waterproof your floor to the drain and go atleast half way up your wall so any leak you may get through grout will drain too.

Delicate surfaces like kitchen walls and wood floors will require using an angle grinder to gently scrape away the thinset. Just finished removing tile and thin set from a small 5 x5 bathroom floor an hour ago. An air chisel with the correct blade would have made short work of it all and been much much cheaper than 500. Floor no more and how to mostly remove thinset from wood subfloors.

Today we learn how to take thinset off the floor with a nifty contraption i made. The old thinset wont hurt anything.