Tile removal - help!

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We recently bought and moved into a house which has part tiled downstairs loo and fully tiled upstairs bathroom, floor to ceiling. DH has worked himself to death chipping off the tiles downstairs, and refuses to consider hiring a professional, so now faced with the possibility of having him slaving over the upstairs as well. Aside from going behind his back and hiring someone, or giving him a good shake, is there any useful advice out there for efficient tile removal? Willing to consider just covering up the bathroom tiles somehow but paint doesn't seem to be the answer (can't find any online without terrible reviews). The tiles are a creamy pink if that's any help.

Would also be interested to know if there's an easier way of getting rock-solid tile glue off the wall in the toilet without gouging massive chunks out of the plaster...

HELP!

Can you not tile on top? If the tiles are on firmly, you can. Not the done thing, though.

Are you using a multi tool to take the tiles off or doing it by hand?

He's chiselling off the tiles by hand, apparently (according to him) that's how it's supposed to be done...

I think we'd want to steer well clear of tiles after this, it's been a bit of a nightmare. :(

Get a multi tool! I think I paid around £20 for ours from Argos and it cuts out the majority of the labour.

Hey, two things I can suggest. There was a product called Rustoleum tile transformations that you can use to 'paint' over old tiles. If memory serves its a two part epoxy or similar mix. I have some tins but havnt used them yet as I'm currently doing outdoor jobs but will be later in the year. It looked like the best sort of product available whilst researching.

The other option is getting a tile remover for an SDS drill. It depends if you own one or are willing to make the investment but there are many attachments you can buy for it to carry out multiple jobs including removing tiles, turns it into a automated chisel if you like.

Only caution is depending on how confident you and your other half are, you can take a bit of plaster away also.

Don't tile over them. The previous owners of our house left THREE layers of tiles on the kitchen floor for us. They're manky but I can't face removing all 3 layers so we're going to be looking at them forever for way too long.

You can replaster after the tiles are off.