How To Remove Sheet Vinyl Over Wood Safely | Columbia MO
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Safely removing a vinyl floor is a project many handy homeowners can do themselves. Pulling up linoleum just takes a little common sense and a few safety precautions.
After all the baseboards are removed you’re ready to start pulling up the vinyl floor. Many people
Will use a circular saw set about 1/4” deep to cut through the vinyl and underlayment in one step. While this works it also makes a mess. Using a hammer, pry bar and utility knife makes the job easy and a lot less messy.
We start by finding an existing hole in the floor, in our case a heat register. I’ll slip the pry bar in between the underlayment and subfloor and start prying. It usually doesn’t take long to find a seam in the underlayment and that’s where I’ll run the knife blade. Once the vinyl is cut through at the seam the underlayment will pull up easily.
Be careful of the staples that will pull up with the underlayment as they can hurt you. Also be aware that as you lift the underlayment up it will want to spring back down until all the nails are removed. If you must let go of it, let it down first. Don’t just drop it. Nails will go through your shoe if you aren’t careful.
A multi saw is a great tool to use to get the last pieces out from under door jambs. It won’t take much to cut through the staples and then the piece will slip right out.
Once all the underlayment and vinyl has been removed you will need to set the remaining staples down with a hammer. You could pull the staples out but that’s a lot more work. Just don’t waste a hammer blow on your hand. It hurts twice (the wasted energy and the pain!).
I hope this video has been a help to you on your demolition project. Comment below with your technique. Don’t forget to subscribe to our channel.
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How do you remove a vinyl floor?
Still a vital video in 2022! After starting a section of the underlayment with hammer and prybar, I used a square sod shovel to get back under the large piece to pry it up. Also another video showed how nippers are the best tool for pulling up the staples left in the plywood, and that worked for me. Thanks again.
I’m glad I could help. I usually drive the leftover staples down instead of pulling them out. Either way works and I’m glad your project is progressing. Thanks for watching.
When I pull up old vinyl with underlayment I always use my skill saw to cut through the old vinyl and underlayment and cut one foot lines to remove super easy and you won't damage the walls and doors jams with those big pieces of pull up.
I just don’t like the amount of dust it creates doing it that way.
Thank you for this video! I stripped half of my kitchen in twenty minutes with this technique.
I think this is far cleaner and more efficient than using a circular saw to do it. I’m glad I could help you out. Thanks for watching!!
Great video! Thank you very much! Excellent tips.
Thank you for the compliment.
Best technique I've seen for removing it yet. Thank you so much for this video it made my kitchen flooring easy to remove
That’s awesome, I’m glad we were able to help make your project easier.
Great video - very clear with great tips! Thank you. Are all vinyl sheets always glued to an underlayment? Are there situations where the vinyl sheet is laid directly in the subfloor? I am having a heck of a time pulling up my old sheet vinyl floor in my bathroom. It just doesn't pull off - so if they are always glues to an underlayment - your strategy should solve my problem! I am a new DIYer and want to avoid damaging my subfloor! Thanks
If your vinyl is installed over a wood subfloor there should be an underlayment beneath it. If you have a floor register in the room lift it out and look there. That should tell you for sure.
That was easy because it wasn’t glued down!
1/4” underlayment is never glued down, just stapled. At least I’ve never seen (nor would expect) a vinyl underlayment to be installed any differently.
Should I worry about asbestos in a floor that was put in ten years ago?
Asbestos has been outlawed a lot longer than 10 years. If you have a different floor covering up an asbestos floor you have nothing to worry about. Asbestos is only harmful if it’s cut or grinder (must have airborne dust).
@@friendlyneighborhoodtileguyMy home in Canada was built in 1994. There are green 12x12 vinyl tiles with black glue underneath. On top of those green tiles, there is a sheet vinyl with white glue underneath. Knowing the home was built in 1994, any chance any layer contains asbestos? Thanks
Looks like your pulling up wood with your flooring
I’m pulling up the vinyl and the wood underlayment it’s glued to. Both layers have to be removed before tiling can commence. Thanks for watching I appreciate it.
@@friendlyneighborhoodtileguy You should have said that in the description. So this is different floor than linoleum rolls.
@@ericastier1646 linoleum is glued to a wood underlayment when installed over wood subfloor. This is rolled linoleum, just like you’ll find at any home improvement store. The 1/4” underlayment doesn’t work under tile floors, it must be removed. Removing only the vinyl does no good, both layers need to be removed. I’ll try and think of a better title to avoid confusion.
where are your gloves!!!!
My hands are the gloves 🤣🤣
@EJ Flooring... Excellent video, thanks. I found the videos with the circular saw first and am glad I persevered to find this one...
Question: Any help you can give us... Do you think your method will work with nails, not staples?
I remember watching when my original vinyl was installed with the 1/4" underlayment. (Something like a "wheat board." )
The installer (30years ago?) nailed every 6 inches, I mean @6inch square. At the time, I thought it was overkill, but he said it was required for the warranty. He hand-nailed them! I am faced with removing this underlayment. Will we be able to pry those nails out of there?
I've been wracking my brain trying to remember the nail size -- maybe 6's, I would hope not bigger than that, maybe the size of a roofing nail with a smaller head? Won't know until
we lift a piece up. I do believe at least the nails were not glue-nails. Fingers crossed.
If the underlayment is too tough to remove, should we consider just removing the vinyl on top of it? I can't remember if it's only glued at edges/seams, or all over, which would be troublesome to flatten, right? (I remember the old "Interflex" floors that were more flexible vinyl, designed to be laid on top of other vinyl that had embossing in them, to keep the embossing pattern from translating up thru the new layer. They were only attached with glue at the edges. I just can't remember about ours. )
That is an awesome memory on the installation. The nails will be a smaller diameter and head, you shouldn’t have much difficulty pulling them up with the vinyl still attached. Actually, in my experience you will have much better luck as the nails will be less likely to pull through the plywood and will be easier to deal with once the vinyl is removed. Typically about half the staples come up with the vinyl and it’s much more difficult to pound them in or pull them out after the underlayment is removed.
Thanks so much for the reply, EJ... that's very hopeful news! I've been sweating that floor underlayment removal for many years. We're still trying to decide on flooring -- I'll definitely get back here and comment on how it went. Will take some time... still trying to decide on flooring, and it's not always easy to get what you want right now. Thanks!
This is fine... except that the floor I'm trying to remove was installed 4x9 plywood. No luan. I've spent an hour and a half and have gotten hardly nothing accomplished. The vinyl pulls up but the glue and paper is sticking :(
What are you installing? Sometimes you can just go over the linoleum.
I totally don't understand what flooring this is. It does not look like sheet vinyl, it has this wood looking underpanel and nails ! wth is this. A roll of sheet vinyl does not have wood underneath it. I am confused by this video.
A common (and best) practice when installing sheet vinyl is to install it over 1/4” underlayment that is staples or nailed to the subfloor. I’m a tile installer, I only install tile floors. 1/4” underlayment has no place in a tile job, it must be removed and a suitable underlayment installed. Removing both the underlayment and linoleum at the same time is the most efficient way of completing the prep work.
@@friendlyneighborhoodtileguy Thanks for your clear answer, i now understand but you should absolutely have said the same in the video.
@@ericastier1646 I will try to do better in the future explaining what’s going on better. What you’re asking for is a great request, it will only make my videos better. Thanks for asking a great question and watching my videos. If there’s anything else I can help with, please don’t hesitate to post again.
@@friendlyneighborhoodtileguy I'm assuming the same goes for laminate too, remove the 1/4 inch subfloor or else my floor is going to be way too tall.
@@Cattywompusx typically there isn’t an additional underlayment below laminate flooring. If there is, I would remove it.