Removing Glued Down Vinyl Flooring

Glued down linoleum and vinyl flooring can be removed from a wood floor without causing too much damage to the wood if you re prepared for a fair investment of time and elbow grease.

Removing glued down vinyl flooring.

Once you get the vinyl planks up you will most likely still have some adhesive on the floor. A glued down floor refers to flooring installed on a concrete or plywood subfloor with adhesive. Scrape linoleum or vinyl floor glue. If you remove vinyl flooring but the glue remains lodged on the subfloor try this.

Remove glued down flooring with a pry bar. Next move about 12 inches to the right or left and cut a strip parallel to the first. Cut out the subfloor and linoleum or vinyl flooring as one piece. If the glue has a very strong hold you may even need to cut the tiles and pry them up piece by piece to get them.

Begin by doing as much of the prying as possible with the tip of a flat pry bar chiseling under the vinyl to separate it from the underlayment. The difficulty behind removing the tiles lies with the glue that was used to hold them in place. Step 5 remove the adhesive. To remove old resilient flooring first cut it into parallel strips about 6 inches wide with a utility knife.

Combine warm water and soap in a bucket then apply it liberally to the glue. Use the utility knife to cut straight down the middle of your vinyl floor. Vinyl tiles and sheet vinyl as well as some types of hardwood and carpet are installed using an. Get rid of the glue.

Use the heat gun to heat up the adhesive and it should become soft. Use a hammer to tap a stiff putty knife or brick chisel under the linoleum to break it loose. After that you may need to wipe the floor down with a little alcohol and a rag to remove the residue from the. Then you can scrape it up with the scraper.

You may need either a crowbar or chisel and hammer to pop the tiles off the floor. Whether it is the entire floor or just the perimeter glued down flooring is best removed through tenacious hard scraping.