Removing Glued Down Vinyl Flooring

Use the utility knife to cut straight down the middle of your vinyl floor.

Removing glued down vinyl flooring.

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. Use a hammer to tap a stiff putty knife or brick chisel under the linoleum to break it loose. Step 5 remove the adhesive.

Here s how to go about it. A glued down floor refers to flooring installed on a concrete or plywood subfloor with adhesive. Use the heat gun to heat up the adhesive and it should become soft. Combine warm water and soap in a bucket then apply it liberally to the glue.

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. Whether it is the entire floor or just the perimeter glued down flooring is best removed through tenacious hard scraping. Scrape linoleum or vinyl floor glue. How to remove vinyl tile glue from wood floors.

Then you can scrape it up with the scraper. Cut out the subfloor and linoleum or vinyl flooring as one piece. Once you get the vinyl planks up you will most likely still have some adhesive on the floor. Get rid of the glue.

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. To remove old resilient flooring first cut it into parallel strips about 6 inches wide with a utility knife. You may need either a crowbar or chisel and hammer to pop the tiles off the floor. After that you may need to wipe the floor down with a little alcohol and a rag to remove the residue from the.

If you remove vinyl flooring but the glue remains lodged on the subfloor try this. The difficulty behind removing the tiles lies with the glue that was used to hold them in place.