Take down shelves before tearing out wallboard.
Wallboard, or drywall, is made of fine gypsum particles pressed into flat panels and covered with a thick paper coating. When installed correctly, wallboard gives you a smooth wall in your bathroom that you can paint or wallpaper. If you're renovating your bathroom, removing the wallboard is one of the easier tasks, but it can be messy. You can't reuse the wallboard, it will come out in pieces.
Instructions
1. Remove cover plates from wall switches and outlets, and remove all other wall fixtures, including built-in shelves, wall lights and towel bars. Cover sinks, commodes and tub bottoms with old blankets or thick tarps to prevent scratches on the fixtures.
2. Rap on the wallboard, and listen for the solid sound that indicates that a stud lies beneath. Tap firmly on the wall with a hammer to break a hole between studs.
3. Grab the edge of the broken wallboard with gloved hands and pull outward vigorously. The either come off the studs or break in pieces. Continue to pull as much off as possible. Break more holes with the hammer as needed.
4. Wedge a flat bar beneath bits of wallboard that are stuck under nails and pry them off the studs. The nails may remain in the studs, and you can remove them with the claw end of a hammer or with a nail bar.
5. Use a drill, fitted with a screw bit, if the wallboard was attached with screws. As the wallboard breaks away, you will see the screws sticking out of the studs. Tap on the head of a screw lightly with a hammer to knock off dried drywall compound, then use the drill to unscrew it.
6. Continue pulling, prying and breaking the wallboard until you've stripped all of it off the studs.
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