Taking Up Vinyl Floor Tiles

Scrape away the linoleum or vinyl and glue with a wide putty knife utility knife brick chisel paint scraper hammer.

Taking up vinyl floor tiles. For how to remove vinyl tile start by scoring the vinyl photo 1. Cutting in narrow strips makes. Next adjust the angle on the floor scraper until it pulls up vinyl without gouging the subfloor. This way is much quieter and will work great if you are doing a project without a heat gun.

Step 3 just add water. How to remove self adhesive vinyl floor tiles. Step 2 cut the tiles. Even some of the early peel and stick tiles used asbestos as the main ingredient.

Step 1 assess the condition of the vinyl tiles. To remove vinyl flooring you must first take all furniture out of the room giving yourself unimpeded access to the work area. Use power to chip out floor tile. Step 4 scrape up the tile.

The best way to remove old vinyl or linoleum floor tile in one piece without having to slowly chip it off. Then turn it on and let er rip photo 2. Joe has some more vinyl floor tiles to remove so he w. Use a utility or floor knife and cut strips out of the flooring that are about 12 inches wide.

Step 5 scrape adhesive use the strips to slowly begin to pull up the vinyl. A majority of the vinyl flooring made before 1986 contained asbestos in the tiles or in the backing materials. The first thing that you will want to do is assess the condition of this flooring. Cut out the subfloor and linoleum or vinyl flooring as one piece.

Step 5 clean up. You ll also need to carefully remove all baseboards and any other. Once it s cut gently lift the strip. Next move about 12 inches to the right or left and cut a strip parallel to the first.

Check along the corners of the vinyl and locate a place where the vinyl is not glued down.