If cabinets above the backsplash limit the room you have to swing the hammer angle the putty knife and wedge a corner of the blade into the space between the backsplash and.
Remove granite backsplash gap.
To remove a 4 inch granite backsplash with tile above you may have to chip through some tile grout with the putty knife before you can get the knife behind the backsplash.
This past weekend we started on our kitchen backsplash project.
Remove the granite backsplash with a heat gun shims and a hammer.
Big box stores have them.
Just to make a note i was only removing the backsplash to put new backsplash up.
We can control the gap a little bit by shimming up and closing it to a recognizable size to where you wouldn t feel like it s weird.
So today i want to share.
Grout is no used between countertop and wall tile.
Caulk normally used would not work because it s too large a gap.
A pencil tile trim would cover the gap.
The thing that is somewhat out of our control are the gaps especially in the high bar where the granite comes into the first backsplash which is the lower part of the gap.
Cover the surfaces near the backsplash with a drop cloth as there will be plenty of falling mortar and possibly sharp pieces of granite falling as you remove the tiles.
During this reno we also had to remove the 4 granite backsplash from the wall.