Removing Polystyrene Ceiling Tiles

To help the process along you can jiggle the scraper up and down a little to prise the tiles away.

Removing polystyrene ceiling tiles.

The beauty is that there are a number of different patterns available and they are not expensive. Hi remove tiles just bye scraping of next scrap of as much tile adehesive as poss. Tap it as far under the tile as you can using your hammer. Polystyrene tiles used to cover ceiling in bedroom image courtesy of homedecorinterior info.

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. Use the scraper to remove the adhesive off the ceiling. Scrape all the polystyrene of first. 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.

Cover everything remaining including the floor with tarps or plastic sheeting to help contain the polystyrene mess you re about to create. Installing styrofoam ceiling tiles is one of the easiest ways to change an ugly ceiling into a beautiful one. Step 1 removing the tiles. The ceiling tiles attach directly to the existing ceiling using an adhesive.

Keep in mind that polystyrene tiles are often installed to conceal ceiling damage so you re likely to find holes water spots and other signs of ceiling problems you may not have known about previously when removing polystyrene tiling. Because of different glues available to install polystyrene ceiling tiles. Use the steam to loosen the adhesive that remains on the ceiling. 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.

Slide your wide scraper between the ceiling and the tiles.