Wall tiling EVERYWHERE - nightmare to fix?

[superduperbuper]

Found a home which ticks a lot of our boxes but has loads of tiled walls. Bedroom, dining room, living room, kitchen, stairs and landing from what I can see. Am I correct in thinking these would be a nightmare to remove and replace with normal plaster?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/91044966

I don’t think it’s usually hard to remove wall tiles. I’ve done it myself. You’d then have to get a plasterer in.
removing the floor tiles might be more tricky if there’s underfloor heating. Would you keep those?
its a nice house.

Beautiful house. I looked at one online recently and the entire kitchen, floor to ceiling, was tiled in shiny black subway tiles. Your potential house’s tiling choices are a lot more subtle! Don’t know about removal though.

Why would you buy a recently refurbished house to change it all, is it the only one you like?

Its livable, and non offensive. Unless it offends you.

This person's house looks like a promo for a tile shop, come see our extensive range. I think it would be a lot of disruption to remove them and plaster the walls and repair the flooring. An option is to not move in immediately, stay in an airBnB and put your furniture into storage whilst a builder comes and rips out what you don't want to keep. All this adds to the overall cost of buying the house. I suppose it depends how much you love it.

The house is beautiful and on a great plot. But I also wouldn't want that amount of tiling either.

It doesn't look as if anything has been done to it since it last sold for £650K in December 2022 (see pictures on RM from previous sale). And house prices for detached in that area have been pretty flat since then. So proceed with caution on the price unless you really love it and can afford to lose £100K+ on a quick resale.

It’s not everywhere! I agree it’s in some random places, but it’s not a huge deal to remove it you hate it. You can get them off yourself then get a plasterer in to replaster if necessary and a carpenter to fit necessary skirting board etc and then you can redecorate yourself if needed? You should be able to do it within about a week. Will be dusty as hell though so I wouldn’t be moving furniture in until it’s done and cleaned.

I think it's one of those jobs were you'd need to budget for the worst case scenario of all the walls needing to be replastered. When we had our bathroom redone, the fitters said they would need to see what the condition of the wall was once the old tiles were taken off, before they would know whether knew plasterboards needed to be fitted.

I actually like it, the fireplace is stunning. I would be worried about slipping over in the bathroom tho if the floor tiles got wet?

What a stunning house. Don't change the tiles! It looks great.

Smashing house. Lots to like there

Its possibly 100k overpriced in my opinion. Take care with your offer if you decide to go ahead, get a RICs valuation.

The only place I didn’t like the tiles was on the staircase, I can see plenty of plastered walls too

You can get a tiler to remove the tiles from
checatrade - they’d use a machine and do all that in a day. Plastering is about £600 a room if you shop around. Allow a week to dry. You can repaint yourself (do a thin wash coat first). All very fixable.

Personally I like the look of this house so I'd happily keep it as it is. But everythings personal taste - so if you hate the tiles then as another poster has said above just budget for worst case scenario - if the tiles are really well fitted it will likely damage the walls when you remove them so plastering work will be needed to repair the walls. You may possibly need an electrician to re-site the sockets and switches too. Then obviously re-decorating afterwards the hallway will probably be the most awkward as high ladders and or scaffolding might be needed - depending how high the tiling goes.

I don't know the area so cant comment on price/value but I imagine the finish of this house is pushing the price up so you'll be paying a premium for the tiles you dont like.

But to be honest I think the colours are fairly neutral so I think you could live with it all short term and just do one room at a time.

I was expecting it to look like a public toilet but it actually looks quite tasteful. Are they all definitely real tiles? I don’t think you would have to change anything straight away and could do a wall at a time.

It's fab but really 3 beds as the 4th is downsarirs and there is no downstairs shower facility.

It's priced as a "move in and nothing to do".

I've no idea of prices in that area but know I couod get similar on the Kent Coast with better proximity to France/London.

It's 6.6 miles from the station.

It's very close to a lake and I'd want flood risks checked out. Has there been a flood, was there water damage, are the tiles on the same side of the house? I quite like the way the tiling has been done; far nicer than a flowery or geometric feature wall.

I can’t see anything wrong with the tiles other than it’ll make life easier to clean and protect the walls. The tiles are in exactly the places you need them and they’re nice tiles.

It really is personal taste. The room sizes and space are good, but the fittings are very much individual to the owner, which is the case in most houses.

I’d find it a bit clinical and there are some features I’d want to change immediately. I think the fireplace is a very marmite feature and some of the basins. You’d need to factor in the cost of changing the areas you want to change into any offer.

I personally found it very nice and tasteful, but the practicalities of living there would bother me.

It doesn't say what powers the underfloor heating and therefore how much it would cost to run, but this strikes me as a house which is going to be very cold in winter - tiles probably not helping with this - and exceptionally hot in summer: all that glass on a wall facing due west at the back of the house, with little natural shading and no blinds/shutters.

I can see they've airconditioned the master bedroom but I fear this house would be unlivable for a good part of the year.

That is one ugly house probably done by an interior designer with not a lot of taste. The ensuite has frosted glass doors and walls!! If you like it though go for it. I’ve plastered over tile before and it’s been fine but that’s a lot of tiling. You’d probably just get used to it and stop noticing it all after a while.

It's very much down to personal taste - I dislike the house intensely as it's neither sufficiently contemporary or characterful for me, just terribly clinical and fugly.

If I had no option but to buy it, every last milimetre of tiling would have to go immediately. I particularly hate the fireplace, shiny floor tiles and tiling up the stairs...why would you even do that?!

It's going to cause a heck of a load of dust and disruption to remove the ones you don't want to keep @superduperbuper, so if you can do it before moving in, that's the way to go. I imagine the walls will need replastering too.

My DP’s old house had this but from 60s. Whole kitchen and bathroom tiled. They lived with it for years until they renovated those rooms. As far as I recall yes it was a pain to remove but they got decorator/builder in to do it.

Agree with pp prob overpriced so reflect in your offer.

There's only a couple of walls where I thought - oh no. But you could on those price up getting a new wall studded over it - in the bedroom for example -rather than removal and skim or replaster.

Lovely house.

Our current house (a Georgian cottage) was like that too when we bought it two years ago! It was last renovated in 1965 (there had been one owner since 1969/70) at which point the kitchen and bathroom were tiled on every wall from floor to ceiling. Curiously the floors in both weren't tiled 😆

We removed the kitchen tiles at the same time as taking out a load bearing wall and adding a steel six months after purchase. Everywhere required replastering as the walls were in an appalling condition. No builders or decorators here, all DIY.