Removing Vinyl Floor

Use power to chip out floor tile.

Removing vinyl floor. Cut out the subfloor and linoleum or vinyl flooring as one piece. Use the flat end of the pry bar to chip away at the glue underneath the vinyl. For how to remove vinyl tile start by scoring the vinyl photo 1.

If quarter round trim has been installed in front of the baseboards as a way of covering the gap between the. Next locate a section of the floor with no glue underneath. With a plywood subfloor you have two choices.

Cut the vinyl in the same direction as the wood in small easy to handle pieces. Get rid of the glue. The old vinyl will probably come up in small pieces and in some areas the paper backing separates from the vinyl itself and remains on the floor.

How to remove vinyl flooring with a hardwood subfloor set the utility knife blade just deep enough to get through the vinyl or heat the linoleum with a heat gun and then pry. Remove the baseboard trim. Remove the quarter round trim.

To remove old vinyl remove the transition strips image 1 that hold the carpet in place. It is because sometimes a new floor can be suitable to lay over the old one. To remove vinyl flooring you must first take all furniture out of the room giving yourself.

Try removing the center section of flooring. So before you get started to this massive task make sure that whether the vinyl cover is definitely unusable or too old. Use a heavy duty scraper to remove the old vinyl image 2.