Time for Action....almost

So after we've bought the tiles and all the shower bits, it's time to stop spending and do some work.

The wet room still looks like this:

I love my dad to bits, but I cursed him for every single one of those tiny teeny stupid tiles he once lovingly put up for me.  They're 2cmx2cm each, and there must be about 3 million of them. I knew this wouldn't be fun.

Just looking at the room and evaluating the work made me feel exhausted.  Teeny tiny stupid tiles aside, I need to remove the shower, maybe the towel rail, figure out if the floor is still usable, and take the old grotty ceiling down. Then learn how to put up a new ceiling, re-plumb, re-wire, re-tile, and then figure out this floating ceiling idea that got me all excited in the first place.

That's about all we can see at the moment, let's hope there's not too much more work revealed as we go. (Spoiler alert: there is)




Kayliegh's dad has a sterling piece of advice he's offered on a few occasions: "Get the right tools for the job, and you'll enjoy doing it".  He's almost completely correct; get the right tools, and the job will be slightly more enjoyable.  Let's be honest, no matter what tools you've got, removing 4 million teeny tiny tiles is never going to be fun.  Still, it set me on my pursuit for the right tools, and gives me an excuse to buy more toys.

During my research, I came across this video:

This "Air Hammer" thing looks to be just what I need, the tiles are practically jumping into his waiting arms.  Off I go, buy buy buy, and a shiney new air hammer is winging it's way towards me. Now, there are a lot of different specs to an air hammer, and a lot I didn't understand or pay attention to.  Things like Average Air Consumption, operating pressures, and strokes per min, which to me, all sound like bigger-is-better numbers. In my experience, the 2nd or 3rd cheapest options are normally the best shout, so that's what I buy.

I should have researched more.

My wonder-tool arrives, and I'm ready to get cracking on these tiles, when I realise my mistake. It's an AIR hammer.  The operative word being AIR.  This fantastic labour-saving tile-destroying tool of hope, has but one connection on it - for a pneumatic air hose. After a frantic minute of Googling my suspicions of failure are confirmed.  I don't have a spare pneumatic air hose lying around the house, and I certainly don't have the recommended minimum 2HP compressor and 25 litre receiver to power this amazing tool.

Balls.  Back to Amazon I go....