Taking Up Floor Tiles

After you have chipped away at the tile and mortar cut the old subfloor into small sections with a circular saw equipped with a carbide blade.

Taking up floor tiles.

An alternative to removing vinyl flooring. Work the chisel under the tiles forcing them loose. How to remove tile. Insert the blade of the scraper under the loosened edge of the flooring and lift up on the handle.

Use a 3 4 or 1 in. Finish removing vinyl flooring with some cleanup. Break up the first tile with a hammer. Working in small sections score the flooring into strips about 6 to 12 inches wide.

Remove the flooring with a hand held floor scraper after putting on work gloves. Removing tile from your floor can be done with a few tools and dedicated time. Hit the tile in the center with a hammer. Masonry chisel and a 2 lb.

If the tiles you re removing were set in mastic and not mortar you re lucky a floor scraper will do the job. Score the flooring into 6 12 strips. Pry up the sections with a pry bar. By positioning a chisel under a tile you ll be able to loosen each one and remove the floor.

I not only looked like a survivor walking out of the ashes of ground zero our house was an absolute mess of dust and all i tasted for a week when i swallowed was tile adhesive. Work the chisel between the tiles and the concrete hammering them up with a 2 lb. Use a broom or shop vac to pick up all the debris that now litters the room. With only 24 hours left until the hardwood floor guys were showing up to install our new floors we rented a cement grinder to get rid of the adhesive on the floor.

If the old tile was laid on underlayment cut through the underlayment and mortar but not the subfloor. Start at a broken tile or between tiles where the grout has loosened. Removing ceramic tiles the easy way using a demolition hammer easy to use and reasonable rental rates make this tool a life saver during light demo work li. If your linoleum features a tile pattern you can use the.

Taking your time with this project will ensure you finish with a beautiful tile free floor.