Just been to look at a house, which is up for sale, The first thing that
greets you is every ceiling is covered with polystyrene tiles including one
wall in one of the bed rooms.  Any one out there tried to remove theses
tiles.  Or is it a question of over plaster boarding and skim ceiling and
try to remove tiles from wall. then skim over.

"keith_765"  wrote in message 
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> Just been to look at a house, which is up for sale, The first thing that
> greets you is every ceiling is covered with polystyrene tiles including 
> one
> wall in one of the bed rooms.  Any one out there tried to remove theses
> tiles.  Or is it a question of over plaster boarding and skim ceiling and
> try to remove tiles from wall. then skim over.
>
>


Depends on how well they were glued on, with what and how long theyve been 
on!
Dont be put off by this though.  Best way to remove them is buy a brand new 
garden hoe, you can walk up and down the room and hoe them off, did this on 
all 7 rooms when i moved into a house 7 years ago. 2 of the ceiling had to 
be skimmed over(about 150) rest of them were fine after a bit of work and 
sanding down.

"keith_765"  wrote in message 
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> Just been to look at a house, which is up for sale, The first thing that
> greets you is every ceiling is covered with polystyrene tiles including 
> one
> wall in one of the bed rooms.  Any one out there tried to remove theses
> tiles.  Or is it a question of over plaster boarding and skim ceiling and
> try to remove tiles from wall. then skim over.



My son had success using a wallpaper steamer on the glue blobs that were 
left after the tiles were down.
-- 
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)