Removing Polystyrene Ceiling Tiles

Remove as much in the way of furniture and accessories from the room as is reasonably possible.

Removing polystyrene ceiling tiles.

Scrape all the polystyrene of first. The beauty is that there are a number of different patterns available and they are not expensive. The ceiling tiles attach directly to the existing ceiling using an adhesive. Step 1 removing the tiles.

Tap it as far under the tile as you can using your hammer. To help the process along you can jiggle the scraper up and down a little to prise the tiles away. Use the scraper to remove the adhesive off the ceiling. 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 steam to loosen the adhesive that remains on the ceiling. Your aim here is to break the bond between the tiles and the glue or adhesive holding them up. 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. Slide your wide scraper between the ceiling and the tiles.

Because of different glues available to install polystyrene ceiling 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. Hi remove tiles just bye scraping of next scrap of as much tile adehesive as poss. Polystyrene tiles used to cover ceiling in bedroom image courtesy of homedecorinterior info.

Then wet the adhesive with warm water leave to soak for 10 mins use a heavy duty scraper with a sharp blade a quicker way is to use a wallpaper stripper.