The tiles came off easily enough but the glue used to put them up is still on the ceiling.
Removing polystyrene roof tiles.
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.
Polystyrene tiles used to cover ceiling in bedroom image courtesy of homedecorinterior info.
Because of different glues available to install polystyrene ceiling tiles.
Hi remove tiles just bye scraping of next scrap of as much tile adehesive as poss.
Use the steam to loosen the adhesive that remains on the ceiling.
The ease of removing polystyrene ceiling tiles is inversely proportional to the diligence and quantity of adhesive with which they were applied.
Getting rid of the remaining adhesive.
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.
My bathroom ceiling had polystyrene ceiling tiles which i have just removed as i am having a complete bathroom re fit.
Working with roof tiles is a lot easier when you know a couple of basic tricks.
You may be lucky and find that they come off.
It is all spread around the ceiling in patches.
Before you get down to it you need to get the room ready for what is a major and messy job.
This video from bunnings shows you how to take a tile off and replace it prop.
Slide your wide scraper between the ceiling.
I had to remove the polystyrene ceiling tiles throughout the entire house and i manage to make it painless and fast.
Set up a sturdy stepladder in one corner of the room.