| Although hardwood floors should last about 40 years, | | | | to preserve the wood, do some pre-cuts with your |
| in the real world things happen to damage it over | | | | circular saw to make it easy to get started. These |
| time and sometimes it becomes necessary to | | | | should be 1-2 feet areas. If you were not sure how |
| remove hardwood floors. Whether you are | | | | the floor was laid before, you should know after |
| interested in removing few pieces without damaging | | | | doing this. Make sure you don't cut down into the |
| it or to go for hardwood flooring demolition, it will | | | | foundation.Steps for removing hardwood flooring 1.Hit |
| depend on a few factors such as the following:-Was | | | | each area of the floor with the sledge hammer |
| the original installation done well?-Is it a floating | | | | enough to break things loose, but not so much as to |
| hardwood floor or a hardwood floor that is glued | | | | break the foundation.2.Use your pry bar to lift the |
| down?-What type of floor will you be installing after | | | | panels and panel fragments up off of the foundation. |
| removing hardwood flooring?List of Tools Circular | | | | You may find that it is easier if you use the tongued |
| Saw - You'll need a circular saw for when you need | | | | areas of the panels to pick them up out of the floor. |
| to cut into the floor.Chisel - You never know when | | | | Also, if you pull the panels out individually and stack |
| you'll need to get into a tight groove or push through | | | | them as you go, you will save a of of cleanup time |
| some glue. Claw Hammer - When floor panels are | | | | and may leave the surface area better preserved for |
| stuck up next to a wall area, you'll need a claw | | | | installation of the next floor.3.If there is glue stuck |
| hammer to grab, pull, and rip them out.Flooring | | | | beneath where the panels were, you need to scrape |
| Scraper - The only way you'll get through a lot of | | | | it up with the flooring scraper and the chisel as |
| glue is with the flooring scraper.Pry Bar - These are a | | | | needed.If the floor you have removed was glued |
| necessity when it comes to picking up floor panels | | | | down, it may be quite a task for you to get your |
| that are stuck.Sledge Hammer - When nothing else | | | | mess cleaned up adequately. In this case there will be |
| will get through, you can always count on your | | | | glue fragments and stuck pieces of glue that could |
| sledge hammer to bust things.Before removing | | | | take hours to clean. Saw dust and tiny pieces of |
| hardwood flooring It is important to understand what | | | | wood are usually everywhere. If you have a sturdy |
| kind of flooring was used and how it was installed | | | | vacuum you can save some time, but you'll likely be |
| before you begin removing it. This will help you | | | | finding things to clean up manually that will take you |
| choose the right tools for the job.If you aren't trying | | | | quite a few hours to complete. |