Removing Vinyl Flooring From Wood Subfloor

To remove vinyl flooring you must first take all furniture out of the room giving yourself.

Removing vinyl flooring from wood subfloor.

Cut into 12 inch strips. Discard the old tiles. This is a video showing me removing vinyl flooring from a wood underlay. With a plywood subfloor you have two choices.

Use a flat pry bar and long handled floor scraper to scrape up all the vinyl tiles. Use a cordless impact driver to remove all the screws. Once you ve removed as much as you can with the prybar use the 5 in 1 tool or any floor scraper tool to scrape off the. Use the flat end of the pry bar to chip away at the glue underneath the vinyl.

Not a fun job. Next locate a section of the floor with no glue underneath. Tools supplies pry bar scraper https. Starting at a threshold use a wood chisel and wide stiff blade putty knife to pop loose one vinyl tile.

Cut out the subfloor and linoleum or vinyl flooring as one piece. Scrape away the linoleum or vinyl and glue with a wide putty knife utility knife brick chisel paint scraper hammer. I describe what i did and why i did it on my website in the post. How to remove vinyl or linoleum floors.