Someone please help us get this old vinyl flooring up!

muckybutt

Apology accepted :beer:

spannerzone

jaytechmagnate wrote: »

Hi
You can search and call to any stain remover man in your area. they definitely have some chemical or some good idea to remove stains from your floor. hope it will help you.
Thanks

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classic


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Leif

I removed vinyl floor tiles some of which were well and truly stuck down. The best way I found was to use a flat bladed metal scraper (e.g. wallpaper, paint) and a hammer. A heat gun helps to soften the tiles and glue. It still took many days of hard work to remove tiles from 4 rooms.

timmmers

A guy I know did something nasty like this and as he had a ton of other stuff to do in his project he got a Worx Sonicrafter he saw on telly...I took the mickey because that stuff never works well, but having since borrowed it rom him I want one...the scraper blade (maybe with a little heat help) would eat this job. Other companies do them too...Bosch etc.

keystone

timmmers wrote: »

Other companies do them too...Bosch etc.

and the best is still the Fein Multimaster of which these are essentially copies.

Cheers

martinthebandit

GSDog wrote: »

Thanks for the advice everyone.



No, it's sheet vinyl and I think it was installed around 1985 so I hope it isn't asbestos!

Is it too late for me to now prime the floor and put self levelling compound over the section which I have removed and the rest of the vinyl? I wish I had done that now but I didn't realise it would be so damn hard to remove.

That is what I would do, if whats left is that well stuck down you wont have any problems and a nice level floor will make laying floor tiles so much easier and will end up looking a better job.

MaggieBaking

I remember reading this thread with trepidation as we had to pull our vinyl kitchen floor up. We did it this weekend, and whilst I guess it was probably easier to do than the above floor I thought I'd share what worked for us. (It was only stuck on half of the room so covering it all over wasn't an option. I am think it has been stuck on since the 80s without any hint of peeling up.)

First we bought a 6" floor scraper (as recommended above) http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/190002 which was hopeless on it's own. My husband had a good try with a hammer and a chisel but it's obviously long work and damages the floor underneath.

So we went out and bought a heat gun. When trying to aim it below the tile trying to peel it back we managed to melt the floor a little bit so gouged that (I'm guessing it's concrete with a black screed of some sort over it?)

The direct link doesn't work but it's from B&Q and it's the Performance Power Hot Air Gun 1800W PHG1800T2. Good reviews, and only £20.

We then bought a 4" floor scraper, used the scraping nozzle from the heat gun to direct it above the floor tile directly so the scraper underneath with a bit of force released the tile, bringing it up in sections. We used then scraper blade to slice off the strip before it stuck back down and moved on. I think we were lucky because the flooring was a vinyl tile meaning it was already 'scored' and easy to tackle by the 12" square.

The floor was hideously sticky underneath so we decided to sprinkle talcum powder all over it which is almost miraculous! What we're going to have to do with it when we put down the laminate I don't know though :rotfl: