How To Remove Glued Hardwood Floors From Concrete

The trick is trying to remove in sections and not chunks.

How to remove glued hardwood floors from concrete. Using a hammer drive the tip of a wood chisel between the flooring and subfloor to loosen the edge of the flooring. Once you do that you can just use your crowbar to keep pulling up the boards all the way across the floor. The wedges are placed where the planks meet. It s important when making the circular saw cuts you get entirely through the flooring.

A common pry bar will work to get under the flooring after a few hard whacks. You can pull out full planks at a time. If the floor is glued you can just set your saw up for a cut that s the exact thickness of the board then pull it up with a crowbar after. Need 2 long crow bars.

Carpet adhesive from hardwood floors removing glued hardwood floor from how to install an engineered hardwood floor remove glue down hardwood floors how installing hardwood flooring over installing hardwood flooring over. This slab had a good smooth surface making scraping much easier. I used three on this job. Depending on how slick the surface is will dictate how long this should take.

The best way to get this job done. Flooring scrapers after the hardwood is removed would be the next step. Blades will dull quickly. One method to remove the floors with out power tools.

If you re removing regular tongue and groove flooring that isn t glued to the floor the hardest part will be prying the first few boards loose with your crowbar. 2 remove the flooring with a hand held floor scraper after putting on work. Removing hardwood flooring from concrete. Engineered hardwood floor glued down to concrete.

Depending on the glue used to attach the engineered hardwood to the slab removing the old hardwood can be a very difficult step in the flooring installation process.