After removing lashings of tiles from the kitchen I'm left with lots of tile cement left on what's left of the original plaster skim. Is there a way to remove the tile cement whilst preserving the skim?
Graham
Tile Cement
Aug 25, 2005
7 Replies
You can try a belt sander. You'll be very lucky to preserve the skim.
Christian.
Wallpaper steam stripper, works every time and preserves the skim.
HTH
John
I'll give it a try!
Cheers, Graham
But then, I've used steam specifically to remove skim before!
Christian.
When I did this once, removing wallpaper, it removed the skim in places as well. Anyway ended "doing a propper job" and removing the old skim, which wasn't well attached (no PVA) and getting the wall re-skimmed.
Could be interesting then.... I'm getting it re-skimmed so if poor skim comes off in the process then so be it!
Grahm
Not really, no.
Power sanding may work.
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