Redo Shower Wall Cut Out One Tile And Sheetrock

Half of the tile sits on drywall and half on the.

Redo shower wall cut out one tile and sheetrock.

Drop those pieces into a bucket of hot water to separate the gypsum backing from the tiles. As you might have already picked up on previous posts my instagram or if you just have a pretty awesome streak of esp this week i ve decided that my master bathroom is finally going to get my focus this summer it s not going to be just my floor that gets some tile help though i m redoing the shower too. See how you have one piece that s in that back left corner and it stops at the end of the stall. The drywall in the bathroom above the shower and bathtub is typically subjected to a daily onslaught of steam.

If there s a lip at the top of the shower stall water collects there and seeps into the drywall causing it to soften and crumble. Loose bathroom wall tiles or a wet spot on the bedroom or hallway side of your shower wall indicate a problem with moisture. Sometimes you can remove the old tile with a hammer and chisel without damaging the backer board but that s often difficult. This is the case so much of the time that when people tell me on the phone that they have tiles they can push in with their hands in the shower or that the tiles are falling off the wall or seem squishy i immediately get the image.

To remove tiles that won t budge reach into the wall and use a utility knife to score the drywall from behind. Cut out the drywall. Soft damaged drywall can usually be simply broken off by hand. Cut along this marked line with a utility knife or wallboard saw and remove the drywall.

Once this damaged drywall is removed mark straight cutting lines on the remaining intact drywall. By far the most common problem i have encountered has been tile installed over drywall in shower wet areas. But before i get into the whole do it yourself project of how to tile a new. Use a hammer and chisel and work your way across to remove the tile.

Plan on replacing the backer board. That said now i need to replace the wall and tile we knocked out and this has created a new concern. Take a whole sheet of dry wall and cut out for the shower stall. How to replace the sheetrock around the shower bathtub.

Spray water onto the tile when needed to keep the surface wet. Make multiple passes with the blade if needed to cut through the tile and to the subsurface. Start at one end of the cut line and run the blade along the tile surface to the other end. With tiles removed you should see exposed drywall.

Although the sheetrock used in bathrooms is usually greenboard. Then pull the tile and small squares of drywall out together. Make it so it goes past the stall and there isn t a joint there. After knocking out 3 tiles fyi the cement wall behind the tiles got knocked out too because it s all glued together so that we could see behind the shower wall we discovered that it was a false alarm no leak everything is ok.