So I'm going to preface this by saying that I have very little experience, however I live in a foreign country and nobody understands what I want done. Sooooo, here we go. I have a bathroom that I am remodeling. I am planing on facing the shower with half dollar sized stone. The problem I have is that the building is made entirely out of concrete and somehow the previous homeowner tiled the bathroom in such a way that I can not remove these insanely ugly tiles from the wall. I have tried chiseling them off, but this is slow going and as I take off tile I am also making divots in the concrete. There are already minor divots in the wall above the tiles (they only tiled about a third of the way up the wall) so my plan was to patch the wall with concrete. can I just put a layer of concrete over the tiles that are there and then begin facing the wall with stone? Or is this a bad idea?
Very bad idea for several reasons.
Stone would be impossible to keep clean.
The more seams the more chances for water to get in behind the tiles and loosen them.
A few nicks are not going to matter, they can be skim coated with thin set.
Need a tool like this to make it faster. http://www.boschtools.com/Products/Tools/Pages/BoschProductDetail.aspx?pid=11255VSR
So no to facing the shower with stone, or no to leaving the tiles on? I never thought of using my drill to get them off. I have a hammer drill and I can probably acquire a chisel bit. thanks for that.
So here are three pictures of the bathroom. I don't know anything about the subsurface besides that it is concrete. So if you are saying stone is a bad idea, does that pretty much narrow it back down to tile?
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