amtico removal,how??????

cherub1965

i have amtico tiles at the kitchen end of my large kitchen diner,laminate floor at the dining room end.i want to take the tiles up and the laminate to put some of the laminate look cushion floor down instead.how on earth do you remove the amtico tiles? have heard the glue is impossible to remove?they've been down years and bit knackered due to dog weeing and me mopping all the time when he was a pup.
the only other option is to laminate the whole kitchen diner but i dont really fancy laminate where we cook,wash up,washing machine is etc.does anybody have any suggestions as to removing the tiles or what i could put over them if i remove laminate.woul;d like the whole room the same if possible.

tiredredhead

Have you tried heat to melt the glue slightly?

keystone

One of these



and a lot of elbow grease.

Cheers

loracan1

I got one of those for some woodchip that wouldn't budge. The blade snapped.

CKdesigner

Hi

Amtico is virtually indestructible. We have it in our shop and totally abused it for 3 years, scratches all over it and worse. We got in touch with the local Service Master man and now it looks completely like new again.

They do say you only ever need to fit Amtico once!

Good luck.

CK

loracan1

I have to say I've seen Amtico under an inch of water when my neighbour had a leak in her house, it mopped up and looked great after...unfortunately it also travelled into my house and completely destroyed my flooring. Might well be worth getting one of those polish remover/maintainer kits

cherub1965

tiredredhead wrote: »

Have you tried heat to melt the glue slightly?

yeas ,i think it will survive anything tbh.....

premkit

why remove it ? if it wont restore with a restore kit, keep it down it is only 4mm thick. just lay your new floor on top.

macman

Is it possible to do a DIY restoration of Amtico vinyl flooring? I have a bathroom (about 2 sq m) with it and it is quite heavily scratched over 10 years. Will stripping and resealing do the trick? If so what materials do I need please?
Can someone give a link to the 'restore kits' mentioned above?

loracan1

macman wrote: »

Is it possible to do a DIY restoration of Amtico vinyl flooring? I have a bathroom (about 2 sq m) with it and it is quite heavily scratched over 10 years. Will stripping and resealing do the trick? If so what materials do I need please?
Can someone give a link to the 'restore kits' mentioned above?

I found this.

I don't have Amtico flooring but have Polyflor in my bathroom. Been down about 7 years and it's always looked good. Whenever I've done the stripping/repolish (maybe 2 or 3 times) it looks brand new. It's quite a messy procedure and involves really scrubbing at the floor with a scourer but any bits of hairdye get removed and as I said, it leaves it looking like it's just been put down.