# removing bathroom wall tile w/o killing the drywall?

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**Created:** [November 15, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/removing-bathroom-wall-tile-w-o-killing-the-drywall/20243 "2006-11-15T11:40:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jskrapper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jskrapper/32/7570_2.png) [@Jskrapper](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jskrapper)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/removing-bathroom-wall-tile-w-o-killing-the-drywall/20243/2 "2006-11-15T11:55:08Z")

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Just scrape w/ putty knife and hammer genltly…you will have to spackle a bit afterwords…

 ![http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/Jskrapper/P2090626.jpg](http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/Jskrapper/P2090626.jpg)

As you can see I had some water damage where I cut the drywall out. I am replacing it with green board in the cut sections…but in the pic you can see that I have much decent old drywall under where the tiles were.

Just start at a corner and work yor way in.

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