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How to Remove Old Flooring

Old flooring can be easily removed to make way for new flooring. Follow the preparation steps to save on cleanup time.

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How to Remove Old Flooring

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" This faded floors going to be removed and replaced with a new floor. Years ago. First assess what's underneath your tiled floor we can see the subfloor by looking up at the bottom of the floor from the basement. But this is an old house what else might there be. Often examining the area around the floor register will give you clues. Here we've discovered not only the subfloor. But two older floors underneath the tile. So in this project we're going to remove the floor tiles and one glue covered wooden floor below. Start by preparing the area for dusty work. Cover the air return ducts so that the dust doesn't get blown throughout your house. Remove closet bifold doors and cover the doorways with plastic sheeting. Place an exhaust fan and at least one exterior window to suck the dust out. Before you start set up a way of disposing of the construction debris. The closer to the work site the better. Starting at a door and pry away the molding. Usually -- only a few nails holding the molding in place. If you work slowly and carefully gently prying it from the wall you'll have the option of reusing the molding after the new floors installed. If the molding doesn't pull away easily like this molding. It's a good idea to rest the -- on a small piece of wood to protect the wall -- Protect yourself with goggles dust mask and gloves. Wear long pants. Crack the tile with a hammer and pry up blue's pieces. Continue to work across the room cracking and lifting away the old tile. This is where window with the debris container below makes all the difference. Once the tile is removed you can remove the old floor. It would be -- labor intensive to remove the glue from the floor and refinish it. To begin to remove the flooring first pry up a doorway threshold and whatever else you discover underneath it. Until you reached the subfloor. When working around floor registers stuff a rag into the ducts to prevent dust and debris from falling in. Using a circular saw with the blade set to the depth of the floorboards. Cut across four rows of floorboards. Be prepared for the fact that you may hit a nail in the process of cutting the boards free. Use a pry bar to pry up and removed the floorboards. Work your way down the boards and across the room. Carefully prying up the floor reports. Be careful to remove all the nails that do not come up with the floorboards. So that you don't step on them walking around the work area. In addition carefully put aside the old floorboards so that there's no dangerous stepping on old rusty nails. Continue to work across the floor. Use a hammer when necessary. Clean up as you go. Disposing of all the old floorboards and nails. Underneath you'll find a paper barrier which you should remove with the old flooring. The old original floor long covered up. Is smooth enough to use as our base for our new floor. In new houses the new floor would be laid over subfloor. Which is usually plywood OSB or particle board in part two will prepared to -- the new floor."

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