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I am getting ready to put hardwoods in my kitchen and need to remove the old linoleum and 1/4″ flooring underlayment to get to the sub floor. For most of the floor, I plan on using a circular saw to cut to the sub floor, then pry up the pieces. To cut next to the kitchen cabinets, especially where there is the offset,I was planning to buy a Fein MultiMaster tool with the flush cut wood blade. Will this tool have enough cutting power? Any other suggestions?
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Rich,
If you're anywhere near a decent rental shop they should have some specialty tools used by flooring installers for cutting tight to cabinets/walls. I'd look at that option before spending the dough on the Fein tool. Another option is to gingerly use a demo-saw (Saws-All) with a good stiff blade. Milwaukee makes a blade called the "Axe". It is the best reciprocating blade I've used for demo work, you can literally plunge cut straight into a 2x4 with it (though slowly). It doesn't bend around and flex like cheesy, lightweight blades do. If you're going to be putting in a new base/trim at the toe kick, it's the route I'd take.
*. This looks to be an option for cutting door jambs and trim before tiling and for exact miter cuts on moldings. I've been known to use the Exacto Knife miter box (it has a very thin four inch long back saw) for smaller moldings, but the new Bosch tool looks great for this.
You want to see a neat, new tool, check out the Bosch 1640VSK Power Handsaw at
*Rich, I'm a retired and retrained hard surface floor mechanic. If what you are removing is truly the old time linoleum it could very likely contain asbestos. The vinyls of the past twenty years don't contain asbestos but it was still being used in some flooring materials as recently as twenty years ago.If the material is laminated with a cushioned back you are safe to saw it, but if it appears as a solid material, or solid with a fiber back you may rethink the saw.
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I am getting ready to put hardwoods in my kitchen and need to remove the old linoleum and 1/4" flooring underlayment to get to the sub floor. For most of the floor, I plan on using a circular saw to cut to the sub floor, then pry up the pieces. To cut next to the kitchen cabinets, especially where there is the offset,I was planning to buy a Fein MultiMaster tool with the flush cut wood blade. Will this tool have enough cutting power? Any other suggestions?