Just thought I would come in here and let off some steam...
Why, oh why, does tile adhesive have to be several orders of magnitude stronger than the walls the tiles are fixed to ? I have just removed several layers of tiles from a kitchen and in the process much of the plaster has come off, right back to the bricks. This was sound hard plaster that was originally well bonded to the wall but even a bolster chisel refused to separate the tiles from it. In several areas where the walls were plasterboard the plaster skim plus much of the board has ended up in the skip, still attached to the tiles. Really, how strong does this stuff to be to simply hold tiles onto a wall ? Sigh...
Or is it a cunning plot to keep plasterers in business ?
Ahh...feel a bit better now..
Jo