Once this damaged drywall is removed mark straight cutting lines on the remaining intact drywall.
Redo shower wall cut out one tile and sheetrock.
Make it so it goes past the stall and there isn t a joint there.
Then pull the tile and small squares of drywall out together.
With tiles removed you should see exposed drywall.
Loose bathroom wall tiles or a wet spot on the bedroom or hallway side of your shower wall indicate a problem with moisture.
See how you have one piece that s in that back left corner and it stops at the end of the stall.
Use a hammer and chisel and work your way across to remove the tile.
Drop those pieces into a bucket of hot water to separate the gypsum backing from the tiles.
As you might have already picked up on previous posts my instagram or if you just have a pretty awesome streak of esp this week i ve decided that my master bathroom is finally going to get my focus this summer it s not going to be just my floor that gets some tile help though i m redoing the shower too.
This is the case so much of the time that when people tell me on the phone that they have tiles they can push in with their hands in the shower or that the tiles are falling off the wall or seem squishy i immediately get the image.
By far the most common problem i have encountered has been tile installed over drywall in shower wet areas.
How to replace the sheetrock around the shower bathtub.
Spray water onto the tile when needed to keep the surface wet.
After knocking out 3 tiles fyi the cement wall behind the tiles got knocked out too because it s all glued together so that we could see behind the shower wall we discovered that it was a false alarm no leak everything is ok.
Plan on replacing the backer board.
But before i get into the whole do it yourself project of how to tile a new.
Cut out the drywall.
Sometimes you can remove the old tile with a hammer and chisel without damaging the backer board but that s often difficult.
Half of the tile sits on drywall and half on the.
That said now i need to replace the wall and tile we knocked out and this has created a new concern.
Although the sheetrock used in bathrooms is usually greenboard.
If there s a lip at the top of the shower stall water collects there and seeps into the drywall causing it to soften and crumble.
Soft damaged drywall can usually be simply broken off by hand.
And then tile to span the flange and drywall i e.
Cut through the tile using an angle grinder.
Start at one end of the cut line and run the blade along the tile surface to the other end.
Make multiple passes with the blade if needed to cut through the tile and to the subsurface.
To remove tiles that won t budge reach into the wall and use a utility knife to score the drywall from behind.
Take a whole sheet of dry wall and cut out for the shower stall.
