OT: tile floor removal

[Capt_Cully]

House was built in 1984. Tiles are down with mortar onto 1/4" particle board backer on top of the plywood subfloor. I plan on doing the demo. I plan on walling off the area with plastic and venting with a fan blowing out of the house.

Is there anything in porcelain tile or mortar from 1984 I need to worry about breathing in?

If so, what type, rating, mask should I be wearing?

Thanks dudes.

 

[jfarr]

silica dust that little bit wont hurt unless your sensitive just a particulate mask with the flapper works best in my opinion

 

[propeine]

Tight fitting respirator with good filters IMO. Truth be told though I would personally probably just make sure there is good airflow and try to stay out of the dust clouds.

 

[Jacwil]

Either of the aforementioned Mark but also stop every lil now and then and put that shop vac and shovel to use. Pay attn to where your vac exhaust is pointed. I love it when that creates a monster start cloud into the house

 

[daveverdo]

As mentioned silica is the only thing I can think of.

Ripped some two years ago. Wear goggles, get some heavy leather work gloves and wear long sleeve shirt and long pants. The porcelain pieces and slivers are extremely sharp (think glass splinters).

I needed an electric demo hammer to get mine up. They were mortared to cement backer board that was mortared to the subfloor. Blah.

FYI It was 90 degrees outside and halfway through my central air blew.

Dave

 

[saltyscotsman]

a particulate mask will be fine did the same in my house watch your face wear goggles

 

[Capt_Cully]

Thanks guys! My contractor was sot of baffled as to how and why they used wall tiles on he floor AND did it on top of particle board instead of cement backer. Hopefully it will pop up without incident.

As predicted Justin, your redoing of your kitchen DIRECTLY resulted in costing me money AS WELL AS working a second job to pay for it. Wife liked yours so much, I had to redo mine. Doing demo will be therapeutic and save me some scratch.

I'm naming the FIRST tile I lay into with a sledge Jacwil :hammer:

 

[Jacwil]

Bawwwhahahahahahahha!!!

Fyi...see if you can locate a shingle-eater. You very well may be able to get under the part. board with it and save some crazy sledge bashing.

 

[AIR-FX]

cully...........you can get a good respirator for under $40 at your local automotive paint supply store. they have em at value. you want to make sure they fit well and have a dual cartridge respirator. put it on and the have your friends or wife spray some air freshner in the air around your head level and walk into the smell. if you can smell it then obviously the mask isnt seated right. if you have a mustache and gotee or beard like i do thenuse some vasiline on the facial hair where the mask will seat itself on your face. also like others said use goggles. i wear em when i paint....anything airbourne can seep in through your eyes and effect your body. you can even get a couple of those paper suits to keep the dust of your skin. might be over kill.....but better then being dead.:wave:

 

[Capt_Cully]

Double

 

[Capt_Cully]

Thanks! I obviously worry about myself, but I also dont want to kick anything up thaT might be harmful to the kids in the short it long run. I'd think that the materials used in 1984 would be relatively safe. But I'll seal off the room and the vents one section at a time. Thankfully my tank is on hardwoods! I'll have to mess with my water reservoirs a bit, but it'll end up being a bit of a blessing. A few things I'd like to tweak anyway.

 

[iamwrasseman]

an automotive respirator will do the trick and put the filters in a ziplock bag when not in use as they are good for 40hrs of chemicle filtering .