I am doing a reno job on a home that has a 3/4″ plywood floor that has had 1/2″ particle board glued and nailed down with ring shank nails then covered with Lino.
The goal is to get the lino and underlayment up and put down slate.
The problem is the particle board does not want to come up. I have tried cutting the underlayment into 2’x2′ squares and prying/scrapings away from the subfloor. This has proven to be unproductive. The particle board just chips away and the nailing pattern is so heavy that progress is very slow.
I have considered lowering the depth of my saw and cutting through the subfloor and pulling it up along with the particle board then replacing the subfloor as well. I figure there must be a better way to get this stuff off the floor.
Any time or cost saving tips?
Thanks
Greg
Edited 2/3/2006 1:49 am ET by syion
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Gasoline and a match.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
take a powersaw with an old sawblade and cut 2' x 2' sections.
Rent a KangoHammer with a wide scraperblade and chisel the board off the subfloor
I didi the 2'X2' section and I did rent the floor scraper but non have worked.
If there was plywood or hardi or some other product other than particle board glued down I think your ideas would work fine.
It does come off in small pieces- even with a broad chiselblade.
Its a bummer of a job but no other way I know of, short of cutting into the subfloor and replace the whole floor in the room
Have you tried a little hot water? I'm not taking about flooding the room but once you score it into sections pouring just a little hot water over the particle board, If it does any good after an hour or so I should thing the plywood wood would dry up rater quickly if all excess was cleaned right up.Once again just a little water applied slowly. Perhaps over well scored particle board with 1/4 - 1/2" scoring.
me? I'd have cut out the whole damn thing and laid a new subfloor off the joists by now.
sometimes ... "the hard way" ... is actually the easiest/quickest in the end.
demo to the framing and work up from there.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
What Jeff said....
i borrowed a big electric Bosch rotor chisel and did some and watched someone else do a couple hundred feet of it. but i'm left with another 400sqft to do yet this summer...bad land.