The first major job of the day was to remove all the old tiles. These tiles were tiled ontop of other tiles thus meaning they were incredibly difficult to remove. Around the top of the toilet came away with ease, they did remove half the plaster on the wall with them but they came away in clumps of 5+ tiles. I found the best way to remove these tiles was to use a good heavy flat head screw driver, this enable you to tap it in directly behind the tile and lever it away from the wall. Don’t get me wrong this is a long and laborious task, best suited for those with a long attention span or those with helpers.  As you can see from the pictures below, removal of the first set of tiles was completed within the day, so around 5 hrs ... Moving onto the opposing wall the tiles became a little more  annoying, Mosaic tiles when removed from the wall fall off individually by the way, this as you would expect adds around a day to your plans, and results in a few more rubble sacks than expected being filled. In fairness though it does give a smoother finish than pulling the tiles off in bulk, you do have a netting residue left attached to the wall though which is a total pain to remove. I gave up at about 22.00 that evening as my neighbours although understanding wouldn’t appreciate the banging and swearing everytime I hit my thumb with the hammer.