Experience with gluing tiles on tiles?

They took almost an hour for about 10x10cm

Do I only have a nail file?

Because that somehow looks totally wrong... similar to the wallpaper. "I don't bother scraping it off, I just keep wallpapering over it." I know that tiles are often glued on top of tiles because it is cheaper and faster. But three layers??? Sometimes it is even discouraged because the tile adhesive does not last forever and with each new layer of tiles, the weight increases... I'm just a layman and Google says both sides..

It's like yxxxxxxxxxxl glue. Sticks like hell. You have an old house, deal with it.

It’s like yxxxxxxxxxxl glue. Sticks like hell. You have an old house, deal with it

I just wanted to know your opinion on whether it makes sense or not. I already changed mine earlier today...

Only had a nail file?

They already struggled with the chisel hammer. The stuff just holds insanely well, which is why I asked if it really makes sense to break off the tiles or just put the third layer of tiles back on.

I just wanted to know your opinion on whether it makes sense or not. I already changed mine today during the day...


They really struggled with the jackhammer. The stuff just holds incredibly well, which is why I asked if it really makes sense to break the tiles down or just put the third layer of tiles back on.

The 3rd layer would be your new tiles. So yes

I wouldn’t have removed the white tiles from around 2000 at all and, given the construction year of 1956, would have immediately suspected that it wasn’t just the second layer—at least on the wall facing the hallway: in the floor plan, one might have suspected it, or at the latest after removing the door frame.

This has to do with the thin wall and the fact that tiles were bedded thicker back then: you can’t knock them off so finely dosed, a bit of wall surface always crumbles along. With the thin wall, I wouldn’t have expected anything else than that both layer 2 and layer 3 were simply laid on top. From 14.5 cm thick or at the latest 17.5 cm thick walls, however, I would have expected that the old layer would have been knocked off each time.

If you are renovating from scratch for the first time, never only work with bold people, but also always with experienced ones.

I now advise you to decide for each wall section (an entire wall side or an entire niche side) and only continue to remove more than one third of the peeled surface for that section and otherwise to start rebuilding.

You have an old house, deal with it

That applies to many things, but certainly not to some stupid tiles. I would want to get rid of them too, otherwise, in 15 years when the first bathroom renovation happens, we’ll be talking about layer number 5 and the pantry will have lost half of its living space in the meantime.

The thick-bed mortar is stubborn, but with the right tool, it’s not a huge problem – it should be removed within half a day. Of course, if you approach it with a small 3-joule hammer, it will be a torture. They should bring proper tools; nobody would think of using a small cordless screwdriver to drill a core hole...

If one or the other masonry stone crumbles in the process, that’s no problem, it will be patched up and that’s that. Afterwards, the walls can be "leveled" with a suitable diamond blade for the angle grinder, if even necessary (for us, the mortar mostly came off in one piece).