Hardwood Flooring Question

[Tim M Tuttle]

Evening all,


I started demo on a house I am flipping today and when we pulled up the carpet the pad has basically fused with the hardwood flooring from cats peeing on the floor for years. I spent an hour or so with a putty knife and got some but there are huge areas where it's not making a dent. Anyone have any ideas on how to handle this?


Thanks

[Jamie Buxton]

I'd go after it with a floor sander. I'd also be wearing a really good respirator!

[Lloyd McKinlay]

I would pull up the hardwood and seal the sub floor with shellac. That much cat urine would soak into the wood flooring and the smell is difficult to remove.

[Lee Schierer]

You can get a scraper blade for a multi tool that will take up old glued down linoleum pretty quickly. They also make industrial powered scrapers that would work faster. There are places that rent these machines.
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