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.
Removing polystyrene roof tiles.
Before you get down to it you need to get the room ready for what is a major and messy job.
I had to remove the polystyrene ceiling tiles throughout the entire house and i manage to make it painless and fast.
My bathroom ceiling had polystyrene ceiling tiles which i have just removed as i am having a complete bathroom re fit.
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.
Getting rid of the remaining adhesive.
Use the steam to loosen the adhesive that remains on the ceiling.
You may be lucky and find that they come off.
Slide your wide scraper between the ceiling.
Heat is the only fast way to remove the.
Use the scraper to remove the adhesive off the ceiling.
This video from bunnings shows you how to take a tile off and replace it prop.
Hi remove tiles just bye scraping of next scrap of as much tile adehesive as poss.
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.
It is all spread around the ceiling in patches.
Because of different glues available to install polystyrene ceiling tiles.