Removing Polystyrene Ceiling Tiles

The tiles came off easily enough but the glue used to put them up is still on the ceiling.

Removing polystyrene ceiling tiles.

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. Tap it as far under the tile as you can using your hammer. In the 1970 s i put polystyrene ceiling tiles onto my bedroom ceiling flat roof no insulation above.

They are easy to. An easy way to cover those cracks is with styrofoam or polystyrene ceiling tiles. Polystyrene ceiling tiles are glued in place and as such are tedious but not difficult to remove once they start showing signs of wear. It is all spread around the ceiling in patches.

Your aim here is to break the bond between the tiles and the glue or adhesive holding them up. How to remove polystyrene ceiling tiles. My bathroom ceiling had polystyrene ceiling tiles which i have just removed as i am having a complete bathroom re fit. Cracks in a ceiling can ruin the appearance of a room.

Save yourself the arm pain by over stretching on a ladder and attempting to push these tiles off the ceiling in a jerky back and forth motion instead take a wide scraper and use a hammer to gently but forcefully break the bond between the tile and glue pushing them down from the ceiling as you go. How to remove polystyrene tiles. Many years later my parents had the room redecorated. Step 1 removing the tiles.

Set up a sturdy stepladder in one corner of the room. 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. They crumble easily and can be removed with little more than a dull scraper as long as you re willing to put in the time required.