"Drywall"

Your problem, as I see it, is that you don't know what to ask for.

He's got more than reading comprehension problems - they are the LEAST of his problems. Not sure how anyone that thick can survive in today's world- even in Scotland.

Not generally but if the tiles are glued to plasterboard, then not a lot of choice as the tiles won't always come away clean. Replace both, quick, easy and *cleaner*.

My time is free, plasterers do it in minimal time because of experience. Where exactly is the problem?

I think it's because of my age, many years of *experience*.

How often do you remove yours? Do you take it down weekly for cleaning? I just leave it in place unless doing a remodel a couple of times in my life.

You can take the tile ANF wallboard off a lot quicker and easier than taking tile off a mortar bed on lath. Likey just as quick even putting up new wallboard or backer board if you are retiling rather than scraping the crap off plaster - and it comes off several sq ft at a time.

I had lived in that house for 15 years and did a much needed update in the kitchen. It had very old built in kitchen cabinets, a strange box arrangement where the stove and oven were. I went the whole hog, took the walls right back to the studs, ripped the ceiling sheets down from the ceiling beams - then started with a blank canvas. Once finished I did similar things to the walls in the bathroom, toilet and laundry. Made all rooms look a whole lot better and a lot more functional by the time I'd finished. But that was a once only. Did some bathroom renos in the next house and some floor tiling, nothing major. My current house was only 8 years old when I bought it, don't intend to do anything major, no need.

Pros almost all use paper tape and NEVER use just plaster or filler on gyproc {drywall}

What are you calling neanderthal stuff? It seems that you have no grasp of the topic

Are you talking of planks, tongue and groove ,shiplap ,plywood, adzed logs? none of which can be made into a continuous flat surface.

Less time and effort than removing tiles from any other surface.

Take the paper off and pick at it with your finger. It's powder. Maybe there's something in it to stick it together slightly, but it's certainly not strong enough to prevent it going everywhere when you break it, cut it, or try to screw something into it.

And then spent hours hoovering up afterwards.

You can screw into wood. You can remove wood without making a mess. It's easier to cut.

And if plasterboard gets damp? What do you think the paper does?

Somehow plasterboard needs less?

I don't have those here. If I did they would be exterminated.

People renovate.

Therefore we invented wood. No skill required.

Because they're incompetant. Just because you do something for a living doesn't mean you're good at it.

I use wood. A far superior material to powder covered in paper.

Use whichever you like, depending on price, ease of fitting, quality, etc.

They're all a continuous flat surface.

A surface that's tougher than plasterboard will not need to be replaced.

Wrong, as always. Wood was used long before drywall was even invented.

Even sillier than you usually manage and that's saying something.