Tile Removal

Imagine your guest room is made up, the air mattress is inflated, but the only bathroom on that floor is stripped down to the studs. That’s a bathroom remodel nightmare scenario, especially when it interferes with holiday company. Thankfully, it’s avoidable. At Wasatch Tile Removal, we see the same thing every season. The tear-out is the first domino. When it falls, everything else falls with it: plumbing, waterproofing, tile, and fixtures. Book the Demolition Before the Inst

At Wasatch Tile Removal, we know the tear-out is the part of a remodel most people haven't planned for. What sits underneath the tile decides how long the job runs and how much material leaves the house. Most of what we pull up was set one of two ways: thinset or mortar bed. From above they look the same, but they come out very differently. How Thinset Tile Comes Out Thinset is a thin layer of cement-based adhesive troweled onto backer board or a slab, with the tile pressed i

One of the most common questions we receive from customers involves what they should move and what our crew will handle when preparing a kitchen for demo. A kitchen tear-out actually moves quickly once the cabinets come off the wall. The slow part of the job is the prep work that takes place first. While this can be time-consuming, we believe it’s important to provide a dustless demolition and leave the job site spotless for the next phase. Prep work falls into two categories

Tile never comes up clean. It comes up in shards, with thinset still bonded to the slab, and if nobody's containing it, a fine gray dust settles on every horizontal surface in the house — including the two rooms nobody was remodeling. That's the real dividing line between a professional tear-out and a weekend with a rented chipping hammer. Not speed. Containment. It's the reason Wasatch Tile Removal built the whole operation around dustless tile removal instead of treating du