We had this same issue - I finally rolled the compressor into the house and
used the air hammer with a large flat blade chisel. The impact of the air
hammer really made it come up a lot easier - a big tip on the dust is to get
a large fan and put A/C filters on it to try and catch it as it comes up -
you can move it around so it is sucking where you are working, this also
worked very well to keep it tolerable.
Good Luck!
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From: shop-talk-bounces+rs1121=earthlink.net@autox.team.net
[mailto:shop-talk-bounces+rs1121=earthlink.net@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
scott.hall@comcast.net
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:57 PM
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Subject: [Shop-talk] getting tile and mortar off a slab?
I'm trying to break up the tile floor on the new house to install the new
tile and wood flooring.
damn.
this stuff is on there like nothing I've ever seen, and it's only slightly
thinner and a satillo tile. I'm getting up the tile--slowly, but a lot of
the mortar is proving permanent. won't yield to a hammer, and I'm afraid
too much more pounding is just going to gouge the slab. chisels and
scrapers might as well be made of plastic.
any ideas on how to get back to a smooth slab? muriatic acid? I thought of
renting a grinder if I could, but some of the bathrooms are probably too
small for it to do much good in there.
thanks in advance.
scott
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