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Everything from my shoulders to my ass is sore from taking out ceramic tiles in the hallway. Tomorrow I have to tackle the thinset left behind...
- Pay people to do it?pango
- it's good to work your own houseGnash
- I'm saving us $3k doing it myself.i_monk
- http://www.amazon.co…********
- when we all said go for it, buy that condo (or flat or whatever) you never said months of refurbishment by yourself.fadein11
- You would be better off ripping up the subfloor than trying to chip away at the thinset, the low traffic areas are going to be tough to get up********
- ^ unless it's on a concrete baseGnash
- You mean a slab? In my experience there would still be a subfloor********
- ya, slab. it's a condo.Gnash
- It's concrete slab.i_monk
- I suppose if the slab is in new enough and level enough it would save a few steps, I did mostly older residential house remodels********
- It's 33 years old. The problem is someone redid some of the tiles and didn't use proper thinset, it's been a bitch to get out even with a demo hammer.i_monk
- Jeez, well if you can't get the mortar bed up cleany you could always get it about good and use a self leveler over the top of the remaining crap and thinset on********
- Top of that. *cleanly********
- ^ yup to that, TerryGnash
- The issue then becomes the transitions to the new elevated floor depth but there are plenty of solutions for that that don't involve repetitive strain and vibra********
- -tion induced nerve damage. Just be glad there isn't metal lathe in the wall, that shit is the devil********
- *lath********