Sam Shank
01-18-2006, 12:16 PM
When I bought my current house 3 years ago, I installed over 1100 sqft of maple and cherry flooring where carpeting was. Prep was easy.
Now, I'm installing it where tile was. The tile was on mesh, which was on the old vinyl (1985 house), which was on luan. Most of the luan was stapled down. That was easy to get out.
The rest of the luan was glued and nailed. Getting this stuff off was a mess. It came up ply by ply. Splintery. (See photos below.)
I'm now trying to remove the ply that stuck to the adhesive (looks like liquid nail type.) I'm having slow success with a sharp 1" chisel, and a #4 jack plane. It isn't called a jack for nothing.
Does anyone else have any other suggestions? Chemical (such as lacquer thinner) is not an option.
And, picture white tile cut to a curve butted up to the 4" maple planks. I knew I'd be ripping it out some day, so it was just butted up with no transition. I'll stitch in the new wood with the old and sand it all.
You can see in the photo with the curved maple all the luan that is still glued down and that needs to come off. You can see the pine 3/4" T&G ply in areas if you look closely.
Thanks, Sam
Now, I'm installing it where tile was. The tile was on mesh, which was on the old vinyl (1985 house), which was on luan. Most of the luan was stapled down. That was easy to get out.
The rest of the luan was glued and nailed. Getting this stuff off was a mess. It came up ply by ply. Splintery. (See photos below.)
I'm now trying to remove the ply that stuck to the adhesive (looks like liquid nail type.) I'm having slow success with a sharp 1" chisel, and a #4 jack plane. It isn't called a jack for nothing.
Does anyone else have any other suggestions? Chemical (such as lacquer thinner) is not an option.
And, picture white tile cut to a curve butted up to the 4" maple planks. I knew I'd be ripping it out some day, so it was just butted up with no transition. I'll stitch in the new wood with the old and sand it all.
You can see in the photo with the curved maple all the luan that is still glued down and that needs to come off. You can see the pine 3/4" T&G ply in areas if you look closely.
Thanks, Sam