Removing 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.

Removing polystyrene ceiling tiles. 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. Your aim here is to break the bond between the tiles and the glue or adhesive holding them up. Use the scraper to remove the adhesive off the ceiling. The ceiling tiles attach directly to the existing ceiling using an adhesive.

Cover everything remaining including the floor with tarps or plastic sheeting to help contain the polystyrene mess you re about to create. 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. Tap it as far under the tile as you can using your hammer. Because of different glues available to install polystyrene ceiling tiles.

Remove as much in the way of furniture and accessories from the room as is reasonably possible. Slide your wide scraper between the ceiling and the tiles. Use the steam to loosen the adhesive that remains on the ceiling. Scrape all the polystyrene of first.

Polystyrene tiles used to cover ceiling in bedroom image courtesy of homedecorinterior info. Hi remove tiles just bye scraping of next scrap of as much tile adehesive as poss. To help the process along you can jiggle the scraper up and down a little to prise the tiles away. The beauty is that there are a number of different patterns available and they are not expensive.

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.