So I have these tiles I want to reuse because I cannot find them anymore. But the thing with these tiles is that they have really hard mortar that is a bitch to chisel away 1 mm at a time. I already broke a tile trying to big balls it with a chisel. I already tried an angle grinder but the dust amount it produces is too messy. How the fuck do I get rid of the mortar from these fucking tiles in an easy way?
>>2975875Try pressure washing it off with an actual high quality and high pressure, pressure washer. I did it once to re-use a bunch of tiles I was having no luck finding a match to.
>>2975875>How the fuck do I get rid of the mortar from these fucking tiles in an easy way?you won't.anon... how much is your time worth? how many tiles are there? lets say you are getting paid minimum wage to remove the grout. if the amount of money that amount of time is even more than half the cost of new tiles.THROW THEM AWAY AND BUY NEW ONES!FUCK!!!!
>>2975887Are you sure it worked fast? Like, was it really hard mortar? Because wasting water here gets the neighbors all privy. >>2976029I'm not a contractor, chillax. I literally cannot ifnd those tiles anywhere, I've looked in over 30 different stores. They're 20+ years old and in a very specific huge and size, won't find them anywhere. And i don't wanna replace the whole floor because it's a lot of sq ft and kitchen floor demo is stupid hard.
>>2976113It was still a bit time consuming to clean them off but yeah it got the job done much easier than anything else. Worth it for you to try at least. If it is super hard maybe you could put them in a shallow bath of muriatic acid to help dissolve off /soften some of the mortar and then try pressure washing it. If you don't own or know anyone that owns a decent pressure washer maybe call someone that does custom pressure washing services and see if he would do a test on a few tiles to see if it would even work for your application.
>>2976113so get different tiles simple as.
don't remove the tiles, remove the wall instead
>>2975875Even if you remove all the mortar around the edges the tiles are set on more mortar.
>>2975887We did this to a mastic shower. The pressure washing worked just fine, but it's a huge waste of effort to demo and haul everything up and down flights of stairs so many extra times. The original tile layout was ok, but everything else was horribly screwed up. The pan was sloped away from the drain. The liner was not correct. No pre slope. The framing in every wall had to be redone. It was important to get everything correct to fit their prefab door.
>>2975875>I already tried an angle grinder but the dust amount it produces is too messyThoroughly wet the mortar on the back to help cut the dust down, it'll make a mess but at least the silica won't be airborne
I've bought picrel for grinding indoors. Works pretty well. But you need good vacuum cleaner and preferably cyclone separator.
