Thank you for the tip. This works amazing. 12.99 for a air hammer at rural king and a ball joint tool at harbor freight for 9.99 and I'm filling up trash with bricks and tile with no sweat.
I started with a hammer and crow bar.... took almost 40 mins to get two tiles squares up. Frustrated, I watched this video and decide to pick one of the Kobalt Air Hammer for $40 at Lowe’s in store (you would also need an air compressor). Did my kitchen which is over 120 sq ft in 1 1/2 hours. Tip: would wedge the air hammer chisel under a spot then move over approx a foot with my crow bar and would lift another the other space. Before I knew it, three full tile were coming up at once. Saving me a huge mess and time! Thanks for sharing this video! My tile broke up a little differently but ultimately got me on the right track! I would have quit if I didn’t see this video. Awesome stuff for $40
So glad I just saw this. Planning on taking up the tile in my kitchen and just spent 2 hours on RUclips watching guy's break it apart with hammers, chisels, pry-bars, etc, Can get both tools at Harbor Freight for around $26. thanks!
Great tip. SHowed my husband and he had the tools. Didn't take long to remove all of the tile in the small bathroom. Now if there was just magic for removing all of the staples we put down the underlayment with.
Awesome!! Thank you for this video. You saved me some $$$. Was going to pay to have tile in my kitchen removed but after watching, I’m going to take a go at it myself. Thank you brother 👍🏽
Personally I wouldn’t. The dust kicked up in this video is toxic because of the materials in the thinset and tile and the dust will end up in your vents and most tile does not fly up that easily. I’m assuming your kitchen is on a concrete slab which adheres tiles pretty well. I’d pay a dustless floor removal company to remove your flooring, trust me it’s worth the money and will save your lungs from silica poisoning
Believe me here in SW Florida when the tile have been installed correctly to the slab subfloor hour and hours are spent with a jack hammer much bigger than that.
THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THAT IDEA! We just used the air hammer to pick up 600 sqft I was going to do by hand. I had a $12 air hammer from Harbor freight and bought the tie rod fork for 9.99. My 7yr old son did most with the akr hammer. A few quick pulls of the trigger brought them right up. We went carefully amd pulled as many as we could up whole. A few taps on the opposite side grout and the popped. We actually bought the 4ft air scraper to clean up the thinset left on the ply wood which also made everything go smooth. A good shop vac helped. Thank you again for a great idea. Everyone, make sure you wear goggles/glasses or mask and LEATHER GLOVES. The tile can ne as sharp as glass
two inexperienced "setters". one on video, and you Pl. He removed backer board that wasn't screwed to subfloor. you spoke of removing thinset from PLYWOOD.. BOTH incorrect installs.
This method worked well for me, much better than the electric demolition hammer I rented at Lowes the day before. The only caveat is that the air compressor has to be large enough to drive the air hammer. My small 3 gallon compressor didn't have enough capacity to run it. I borrowed a 6 gallon unit and it worked much better. I still had to let it recover periodically, but it did do the job at a fraction of the price I paid to rent the electric hammer at Loews.
Wow 😮 I wish I would’ve saw this video a view years ago when it took FOREVER to hammer and chisel out the tile at the entry of my front door and fire place. I would’ve saved hours of my time and a lot of cleaning 😂😅thank you!!!
God bless you dude! Simply amazing. Only took a few minutes to get the hang of it. Damn this set up works for me just like it works in this video, and I didn't have a clue of how to do this work before watching your video, Good on ya'! Good karma for all this help. Peace.
Funny... when he was using the hammer and chisel he tapped against the sub floor. Then when he uses the air chisel he goes under the tile. I have popped up improperly installed tile with a hammer and chisel just as easily as he did with the air hammer.
Excellent video. I didn't have the air hammer but the video inspired me to try something else. I did go down to the auto store and picked up the ball joint remover but it was not adaptable with my SDS hammer as I hoped. So I used instead the Ryobi SDS Hammer with a tile lifting tool and it worked the same way. Same effect. Again great video.
Man your right, someone in my house laud tile straight over The linoleum on top of a wood sub floor. My house is on a raise foundation. The used no hardiback just straight fuckin thinset on the old kitchen linoleum. I found this out when i peeled out my living room carpet met the kitchen tile. There’s prolly at least a dozen tiles with cracks in them just from walking on then. They really did a shit job at my place. On top of that under all the carpet was true oak wood from the original build needed a sand and restain looks great
Awesome. I was planning a job and wondering if I needed to rent a tool. I can use my automotive tools and save some money. Thanks for the tip. I owe ya.
Nice tip, electric impact hammer works as well. The pneumatic too, it just doesn't come off this easily every time. So.If you want to make remodelling easier, use the premixed mastic that comes in a bucket. That is what was used on this floor.
How would you rate the air chisel method opposed to the demo hammers SDR I believe. Would you say it does a better job ar removing the thinsrt as well?
That tile didn't even hardly bond to the thinset, I could hear how hollow it sounded as you chiseled it. A well bonded tile won't sound like that, nor come up in half or full pieces. Whoever laid that tile let the thinset set up too long so the top of the thinset skinned over and didn't grab the tile. Such thinset will press down, but won't adhere to the tile, so you think you're doing the job right but you're not.
Hey brotha, tile set properly will not come out in full pieces. It will come out in chunks and the thinset mortar on the slab will sit need to be removed. This video should be a narrative on how a tile hack sets tile.
Any professional could’ve taken this up with a hammer and 5-in-1 in a quarter of the time it took this guy. Don’t be fooled by this, majority of tile does not pop up this easily especially on concrete unless you have long 2x4 looking tile; that tile always flies up majority of the time but other than that, buy a makita handheld jackhammer with hose and get a shopvac to eliminate dust.
I've got about 400 sqft of tile on concrete slab to remove. In my mind, I'm transmuting the concrete slab into the material that is underneath your tile job. I'd tell the homeowner "I deploy metaphysical techniques - to simplify the job, we have a machine that temporarily changes the physical properties of the concrete slab. Einstein developed it. He made a fortune in physics." Then the homeowner says "All that sounds fine, but what does it mean?" "It means we can use an air compressor, and an air gun with an automotive tie-rod attachment to remove your old tile." The homeowner then says "Will you re-convert the concrete slab back to its old self before you install the new tile?" "Of course", I says. "We're pros." . .
It's not that you are doing it the easy way .... it's because it was shit installation to begin with and all the thinset is stuck to the floor and not the tile. Now tell everyone how long it took you to get the thinset up?
Not long with the scraper I described. Its irrelevant how the tile was installed because we are REMOVING IT! Hence the title. Go argue with the people on the, how to put down tile, posts.
Id like to see that work on the tiles I’m taking up. Mine are stuck down properly, not with flimsy underlay that makes taking them up easy! Stick some tiles direct to concrete then see how well that tool works lol.. (if they as loose as that, a flat bit on a normal hammer drill would do just as well)
The chisel would have worked if you have hit the same location you are going through with air hammer. You were using chisel below thinset while you used air hammer above thinset.
The tiles aren't the problem it's the lining under them unless you wanna sit there with a screw gun and back them all out it's just difficult the easiest way is a jack hammer but that's heavy
You know, they make Yankee ice scrapper designed ones that you can stand up and use right? then what you do is fire the compressor, get you a kid that need a few bucks and have him go behind you with a wheel barrel and pickem all up. if your handy you can reuse them!
When I demo the tile never hits the ground once. Why clean up more than you have too? Clean up is easily 25%-50% of the time spent on site. Typically I enjoy a 5 foot breaker bar and let the leverage take over.
Nobody care about the effort required to remove tiles in pieces. We The People want to know how to selectively remove tiles in one piece... I need to save 6-8 out of the 80 I'm removing...
Dangerous amateur. Improper safety glasses, doesn’t put gloves on till he’s done and no dust mask while chipping up Dash Patch that contains asbestos. Operator error. Failure
Thank you for the tip. This works amazing. 12.99 for a air hammer at rural king and a ball joint tool at harbor freight for 9.99 and I'm filling up trash with bricks and tile with no sweat.
I started with a hammer and crow bar.... took almost 40 mins to get two tiles squares up. Frustrated, I watched this video and decide to pick one of the Kobalt Air Hammer for $40 at Lowe’s in store (you would also need an air compressor). Did my kitchen which is over 120 sq ft in 1 1/2 hours. Tip: would wedge the air hammer chisel under a spot then move over approx a foot with my crow bar and would lift another the other space. Before I knew it, three full tile were coming up at once. Saving me a huge mess and time!
Thanks for sharing this video! My tile broke up a little differently but ultimately got me on the right track! I would have quit if I didn’t see this video. Awesome stuff for $40
So glad I just saw this. Planning on taking up the tile in my kitchen and just spent 2 hours on RUclips watching guy's break it apart with hammers, chisels, pry-bars, etc, Can get both tools at Harbor Freight for around $26. thanks!
Great tip. SHowed my husband and he had the tools. Didn't take long to remove all of the tile in the small bathroom. Now if there was just magic for removing all of the staples we put down the underlayment with.
Thanks for the tip! It was a huge labor saver and we were able to get the tools needed for less than $20.
omg from where
Awesome!! Thank you for this video. You saved me some $$$. Was going to pay to have tile in my kitchen removed but after watching, I’m going to take a go at it myself. Thank you brother 👍🏽
Personally I wouldn’t. The dust kicked up in this video is toxic because of the materials in the thinset and tile and the dust will end up in your vents and most tile does not fly up that easily. I’m assuming your kitchen is on a concrete slab which adheres tiles pretty well. I’d pay a dustless floor removal company to remove your flooring, trust me it’s worth the money and will save your lungs from silica poisoning
Great idea. It works great, but it's a little more difficult when you have concrete underneath it.
Believe me here in SW Florida when the tile have been installed correctly to the slab subfloor hour and hours are spent with a jack hammer much bigger than that.
😂. Oh no I put mine down real good face-palm.
THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THAT IDEA! We just used the air hammer to pick up 600 sqft I was going to do by hand. I had a $12 air hammer from Harbor freight and bought the tie rod fork for 9.99. My 7yr old son did most with the akr hammer. A few quick pulls of the trigger brought them right up. We went carefully amd pulled as many as we could up whole. A few taps on the opposite side grout and the popped. We actually bought the 4ft air scraper to clean up the thinset left on the ply wood which also made everything go smooth. A good shop vac helped. Thank you again for a great idea. Everyone, make sure you wear goggles/glasses or mask and LEATHER GLOVES. The tile can ne as sharp as glass
two inexperienced "setters". one on video, and you Pl. He removed backer board that wasn't screwed to subfloor. you spoke of removing thinset from PLYWOOD.. BOTH incorrect installs.
This method worked well for me, much better than the electric demolition hammer I rented at Lowes the day before. The only caveat is that the air compressor has to be large enough to drive the air hammer. My small 3 gallon compressor didn't have enough capacity to run it. I borrowed a 6 gallon unit and it worked much better. I still had to let it recover periodically, but it did do the job at a fraction of the price I paid to rent the electric hammer at Loews.
Great info! Tried it yesterday, worked effortlessly! Thank you very much for the video!
Excellent tip! I'm about to replace some broken tiles and I'm glad I found your video!
Wow 😮 I wish I would’ve saw this video a view years ago when it took FOREVER to hammer and chisel out the tile at the entry of my front door and fire place. I would’ve saved hours of my time and a lot of cleaning 😂😅thank you!!!
God bless you dude!
Simply amazing. Only took a few minutes to get the hang of it. Damn this set up works for me just like it works in this video, and I didn't have a clue of how to do this work before watching your video, Good on ya'! Good karma for all this help. Peace.
Funny... when he was using the hammer and chisel he tapped against the sub floor. Then when he uses the air chisel he goes under the tile. I have popped up improperly installed tile with a hammer and chisel just as easily as he did with the air hammer.
Excellent video. I didn't have the air hammer but the video inspired me to try something else. I did go down to the auto store and picked up the ball joint remover but it was not adaptable with my SDS hammer as I hoped.
So I used instead the Ryobi SDS Hammer with a tile lifting tool and it worked the same way. Same effect. Again great video.
Thank you, that was easy. Have any videos of removing Tinset from a concrete floor?
When tiles come off in big pieces like that, it means they were installed poorly. And it looks like it was installed on particle board.
Man your right, someone in my house laud tile straight over The linoleum on top of a wood sub floor. My house is on a raise foundation. The used no hardiback just straight fuckin thinset on the old kitchen linoleum. I found this out when i peeled out my living room carpet met the kitchen tile. There’s prolly at least a dozen tiles with cracks in them just from walking on then. They really did a shit job at my place. On top of that under all the carpet was true oak wood from the original build needed a sand and restain looks great
Sucks but when you change tiles really helps for demolition 😂 lol
folks remembers to always wear safety glasses
- wife hands him safety glasses and reminds him to wear them....lol
😂😂😂
I watched this and then immediately priced out an air chisel... this is going to save my hands!
Thank you!
Awesome. I was planning a job and wondering if I needed to rent a tool. I can use my automotive tools and save some money. Thanks for the tip. I owe ya.
Used this technique on my kitchen floor. Awesome results.
Nice tip, electric impact hammer works as well. The pneumatic too, it just doesn't come off this easily every time. So.If you want to make remodelling easier, use the premixed mastic that comes in a bucket. That is what was used on this floor.
How would you rate the air chisel method opposed to the demo hammers SDR I believe. Would you say it does a better job ar removing the thinsrt as well?
That tile didn't even hardly bond to the thinset, I could hear how hollow it sounded as you chiseled it. A well bonded tile won't sound like that, nor come up in half or full pieces. Whoever laid that tile let the thinset set up too long so the top of the thinset skinned over and didn't grab the tile. Such thinset will press down, but won't adhere to the tile, so you think you're doing the job right but you're not.
Hey brotha, tile set properly will not come out in full pieces. It will come out in chunks and the thinset mortar on the slab will sit need to be removed. This video should be a narrative on how a tile hack sets tile.
Any professional could’ve taken this up with a hammer and 5-in-1 in a quarter of the time it took this guy. Don’t be fooled by this, majority of tile does not pop up this easily especially on concrete unless you have long 2x4 looking tile; that tile always flies up majority of the time but other than that, buy a makita handheld jackhammer with hose and get a shopvac to eliminate dust.
Man I’m just looking for a fast alternative
I've got about 400 sqft of tile on concrete slab to remove. In my mind, I'm transmuting the concrete slab into the material that is underneath your tile job. I'd tell the homeowner "I deploy metaphysical techniques - to simplify the job, we have a machine that temporarily changes the physical properties of the concrete slab. Einstein developed it. He made a fortune in physics." Then the homeowner says "All that sounds fine, but what does it mean?" "It means we can use an air compressor, and an air gun with an automotive tie-rod attachment to remove your old tile."
The homeowner then says "Will you re-convert the concrete slab back to its old self before you install the new tile?"
"Of course", I says. "We're pros."
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I am impressed, I also love all the comments.
Not a bad alternative to an expensive chipping hammer.
How are you removing the tile around the cabinets? Is the existing floor under the cabinets?
some advice: wear heavy duty gloves, when tiles break, they're sharp as glass
Great job! I know what I'm using now.
PERFECT! Thank you. Great if already have a pneumatic setup in the garage with a long hose ;)
It's not that you are doing it the easy way .... it's because it was shit installation to begin with and all the thinset is stuck to the floor and not the tile. Now tell everyone how long it took you to get the thinset up?
Not long with a cup grinder with vac attachment
Not long with the scraper I described. Its irrelevant how the tile was installed because we are REMOVING IT! Hence the title. Go argue with the people on the, how to put down tile, posts.
If The floor had severe water damage, maybe that's why the tile is easier to get remove. But that looks like it could help in any case👍
Thank you! also a little pissed cause my hammer and tiny wedge have been working silly for so long. :)
Yep, gonna do it this way!
Muy buen trabajo desde Costa Rica saludes maestro
Id like to see that work on the tiles I’m taking up. Mine are stuck down properly, not with flimsy underlay that makes taking them up easy! Stick some tiles direct to concrete then see how well that tool works lol.. (if they as loose as that, a flat bit on a normal hammer drill would do just as well)
no doubt these videos i have seen are a joke only crappy tile jobs come up that easy never the ones i do it seems
Seems to be on a second or third level. Title on slab is a whole different ball game.
Most people that don't know how to peel up tile have no clue what an air tool is.
By using a air gun instead of a electric hammer drill is the air gun more powerful that using a hammer drill to pull tiles off?
Where do I get a
that air contraption. And what course do I need to take to learn how to use it. EASY FOR YOU !!!! Not easy for most people.
Try that on concrete !!
Be careful-broken tiles are razor sharp. I had cut my hand just replacing one tile. Always wear gloves when handling broken tiles.
Too late :(
Gracias por compartir tus conocimientos
When you are referring to cement, is that the same as cement board?
The chisel would have worked if you have hit the same location you are going through with air hammer. You were using chisel below thinset while you used air hammer above thinset.
poorly set tile pops off easily as shown
Yep! When backer board is screwed down it is not easy to get up. Looks like they just layed in on the floor.
Was that backer board screwed down or nailed?
What is the tool you are using? Can you get a the box store? Thanks
What size air compressor you using? Any chance a small 6 gallon would work?
It would be easier to pull it all up with the cement board that’s Underneath
So the old tile floor didn't have hardi board on your sub floor, if it did have it like it should, can you still use this tool
What size air compressor are you using?
I've got floor down in Florida..that won't happen down here with that tool
How big was the air compressor you use for this air hammer?
You can fool the fans but you can't fool the players
Better than a sledge hammer!
love the shirt.
The tiles aren't the problem it's the lining under them unless you wanna sit there with a screw gun and back them all out it's just difficult the easiest way is a jack hammer but that's heavy
Reckon this would work in a shower that was tiled? or would it damage the durock cement board backing?
J March my guess is anything will ruin durock... we use it on all showers it's just hard to get any adhesive off of it without ruining it
Is that a concrete slab underneath the tile?
cool bro
I do this shit for a living nothing beats a small jack hammer with 2in bit
Bosch Bulldog Extreme SDS Plus, there is no substitute
You know, they make Yankee ice scrapper designed ones that you can stand up and use right? then what you do is fire the compressor, get you a kid that need a few bucks and have him go behind you with a wheel barrel and pickem all up. if your handy you can reuse them!
Lol there's a tool for that .. it's a SDS Hammer drill. With the right bit it even takes out the thin set
How much is that tool? The harbor freight air hammer cost $12. Even the IR from home depot is only 35. The 2 bits $20
Rich Cohen SDS is multipurpose tool
Tiles not laid right and damp so come off easy anyway. And no ear plugs or gloves. Your sacked 😬
When you do the job you can wear what you want.
Is that mud they used to hold it down?
Looks like mastic.
When I demo the tile never hits the ground once. Why clean up more than you have too? Clean up is easily 25%-50% of the time spent on site. Typically I enjoy a 5 foot breaker bar and let the leverage take over.
Wow. That’s awesome
wow incredible!
Did you ever remove tile from a concrete slab?
Dont forget completely saturated title could pop off in big pieces. I've seen it happen even with well set pieces.
When there is water damage, you can get tile up no problem. An electric chisel is the way to go in reality. All my opinion
could you please tell me the name of the tools you're using??
I have the same question
Air Hammer, and Ball Joint pickle fork attachment.
What type of air compressor are you using?
Puuulease, that tile was on top of a vinyl floor. Thats easy to remove.
What about a middle piece
genius!
Have you patented that?
Ear protection?
Wow. 10 tiles.
Because everyone has pneumatic tools
Shouldn't you also be wearing a dust mask?
Tile is sharp. Why would you work without gloves...?
its coming off so easy because they didn't wet the sub floor when laying the tile
Very easy to remove tile that was installed poorly !!!!
One smack with a pry bar and hammer and pop the bar and that tile would come off but then I'm way more sore the next day
Nobody care about the effort required to remove tiles in pieces. We The People want to know how to selectively remove tiles in one piece... I need to save 6-8 out of the 80 I'm removing...
It looks like the tile was installed on top of linoleum.
LOL, am I watching Red Green? 🤣
It would have been funny if you took off your seeing glasses to put on the safety glasses, and then you couldn't find the floor
I was thinking the same thing. 😂😂😂
Y not a chipping hammer thats what pros use
First thing first! Get off your knees!! They must of used gum to place those tiles down! 😵
It is not the tool, it is easy because poor installation 😂😂😂😂
put your safety glasses on before you star the video so we are not wasting our time watching you struggle with them
Poor install, no gloves, no hearing protection. Let's see the thinset come up...
👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Safety ear gear for this demo..yikes
Dangerous amateur. Improper safety glasses, doesn’t put gloves on till he’s done and no dust mask while chipping up Dash Patch that contains asbestos. Operator error. Failure
He said he was not a novice .....he just looks like he breaks things frequently...