That's pretty normal. Replacing the affected sheet rock is how it's always gone on the job for me.

God dammit.

But thank you :)

I'd recommend just cutting the drywall around the tile now and that way you can break it all out in big chunks, and you control where the breakage is. Unfortunately you're seeing drawbacks of a tile job done well.

I’m in the middle of remaking my master bathroom that has a wall of tile 4’ high around the whole room. My only option is to rip out the drywall and reinstall it.

Since it’s in a wet area, you could cut a little more out and replace it with ToughRock mold and moisture resistant sheet rock….I guarantee your builder didn’t use it.

I’ve had good results by scoring the tile and cutting into the grout around each tile before removing it. The idea is to provide less surface area for adhesion before prying it out, so it takes less drywall with it.

Luckily it's 4' though!

NEED TO REPLACE ALL SHEET ROCK AND INSTALL CEMENT BOARD ON SHOWER

Yes, this! Put hardibacker up in it's place, and put new tile back up. You'll spend less time just tearing it all off then trying to be gentle and salvaging it.

I had a similar issue recently. Our kitchen only had tile behind the stove and the sink. When we started our remodel it was impossible to get it off without destroying the Sheetrock so we decided to just cut around the tile with an oscillating tool and replace the Sheetrock sections.

What did you use for that? A dremel or something?

Ha this is exactly our scenario

Last one I did tried that a bit. Was looking at patches and repairing. And just cut it as straight as I could. Then just replace with a rectangle of drywall. Less patching. Less work. And faster. Most importantly less dust everywhere.

They make a new tile backer board. It cuts like drywall. It should make your repair easier. It comes in 1/2 & 5/8” and it’s available in 4’ x 8’ sheets. It’s the same deal as densglass. Only, it’s made for tile imstallation

Like others have said, stop removing individual tiles. Instead, cut all the drywall and it’ll take the tile with it still attached. Instead of replacing with new drywall, replace with hardibacker instead.

Pretty dusty if you do that

what....? do you think tiles are put on like lego? of course its going to damage the wall behind it.

Same here. Every time I have taken tile down I just assume I am replacing the drywall.

No need to be a prick, OP was asking if there was a better way to go about it because the damage was more than they expected.

Drywall is incredibly cheap.

Who cares. Rip it all off.

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Ive weakened the grout with a handheld grout saw, then I’ve used the chisel that you have pictured along with a hammer to chisel the grout out.

Then slowly chisel the tile from multiple sides and gradually angle the chisel outward to apply force. If you use a lot of force with an outward angle to pry the tile out, you’ll take a lot of wallboard with it. You want to chisel between the tile adhesive and drywall all the way down/across the tile until it just falls off.

Same exact thing happened to me when I did my backsplash.

Easiest way to remove tile is to just cut the drywall out in sections, easier to move 5 big chunks then 1000 tiny pieces, then just replace the drywall and mud it

The best is when you spend 2 hours meticulously taking off a 2 ft x2 ft square then moving on to the next part just to realize the drywalls moldy anyways. I removed 4x as much tile and drywall in 10 minutes than I did in 2 hours.

Just removed the tile in our kitchen. I just sledgehammered it and ripped the whole drywall sheet with it. Much easier to tape and mud a large patch than whatever your plan was.

Cut out the sheet around the tile then cut it back to the center of the nearest studs, hang new sheet, and tape it. If this is a wet area in your bathroom you might want to use waterboard rather than regular sheetrock.

It’s way easier to take the whole piece and replace it and I hate drywall. Luckily, the mud job doesn’t need to be great. Just passable. Assuming you’re going to tile above the joint. It’s so much quicker than trying to carefully remove tile.

If the sheetrock comes off easy, then it should be pulled off and replaced. You're getting a two for one with this job.

You can do a little better with an oscillating multi tool. You'll still have a lot of cleanup and repair after the tile is down.

Don't take the tile down. Take the sheet rock down. Just cut above and below the tile and pull the whole thing down.

Just get a multi tool and cut off the drywall above the tile. Then pull it off the wall. At least then you have a pre determined line to fix. The way it is now, you'll have to do that anyway, but without any guide, and with way more damage to surrounding areas, likely.

Did you look at the photos? This isn’t a shower.

That’s when you simply tile over tile.

It's often a good idea to save the time and re line at least part of that wall if not the whole wall

It's fairly straightforward with gyprock/sheetrock whatever the brand -it's all gypsum board anyway.

You can just cut a straight line with a sharp X-acto knife, remove the damaged part, smooth edges and fit in the new piece and the refinish the wall. No need to tear the whole wall down for a new sheet.

OK, then just replace the drywall with cement board.

Doesn't matter if shower or not.

Yes I would remove the sheetrock with tile attached. Much easier for demo and replacement. The amount of effort required repair the nasty mess of holes and rough surfaces while maybe not a daunting task, would likely result in an uneven finish causing your new tile to bulge and ripple.

Ditto on cutting it out- nice Mud job, and no signs will show

If the tile/mortar isn't taking the sheet rock off with it, it probably should have come off and been redone anyway.

Good glue is usually stronger than the two surfaces it holds together, so yep, you're gonna take some wall. Just replace that section.

I took some off last week. Massive hole with one tile then I used hammer and flat screwdriver and they came off with no issues

This happened to me removing what I thought was wall paper. I kept thinking this is crazy that the plaster is coming with it. Once I took a closer look, they put the wall paper up with floor adhesive. The plaster didn't stand a chance.

Yep, and then tile just a bit higher and you don't have to fuss with the seam.

Cut the whole thing out. Then you’ll have straight lines when you go to replace the sheet rock. It’s also faster.

Drywall is $20 for a 4x8 sheet. Only way you can remove tile without damaging the drywall is if they were installed poorly. But you won’t be that lucky.

Almost always will!

I did not take a look @ fotos . My bad 🥴

There's no reason to use cement board on a backsplash.

Any water seepage and you have to redo the job.

I guess it depends on how long you want the job to last.