Best Way To Remove Thinset From Concrete Slab

I ve been doing flooring for 15 years and so far best thing is a o pneumatic hammer with a thinset removal bit.

Best way to remove thinset from concrete slab.

If it is a small area you can get by with a margin trowel like a brick trowel but with a rectangular blade to scrape. Removing tile and thinset from concrete. Rotary hammer drill via amazon everything i read said to buy a 2 tile chisel for the hammer drill. The larger chipping hammers are a pain to operate and the wide blades actually walk over the thinset so you need multiple passes.

Way to tackle it. All posts flooring projects and plans remodeling 101 tile. It will chisel the thinset off the cement like butter they said. If you are lucky the concrete slab will have a slick.

We decided the basement floors were something we had to update before we can sell this house. Use the flat end of a 2 pound 0 91 kg hand maul to hit the end firmly. Since i ve never tried to remove thinset from concrete before i did what most diyers do in this situation i googled it. March 21 2019 at 5 41 pm.

Works realky well for small areas like kitchens or bathroons. Today we learn how to take thinset off the floor with a nifty contraption i made. Place a 1 inch 2 5 cm putty knife at a 45 degree angle to the remaining thinset patches. Which meant removing tile and thinset from the concrete foundation.

Depending on what you will be replacing the tile with you may not need to remove all the thinset.