Bathroom renovation advice - Shower floor challenge

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1200GXman

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Good morning all

Busy with the renovation project of the children's bathroom. It has a bath tub and shower in it. Progress is slow but getting there as I am doing it myself.

Problem: Next on the list is the shower. I need to remove the wall tiles and then the BIG one, clean the shower floor and prepare for the new modern floor tiling to be installed. I found out everything on how to do this when the prep work is done. The prep work is my big challenge. The house was build in the late 70's when it was fashion to use broken tile pieces embedded in the concrete floor of the shower when it was still a wet casting. This is the hardest concrete I have ever come across. I have to chisel out the pieces of broken tiles and then drop the level a bit to accommodate the new tiling to be layed down. How can I do this? I did research and found a grinding cup made by torquecraft which is the same as a diamond cutting disc but not a cutter. More of a grinding cup. Any experience with this type of discs/cups? Will it do the job in grinding the floor down a bit where the knobs will be left?

Basically I want to know if anyone has used this kind of cups and how effective are they in grinding hard concrete.

 
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