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Remove Vinyl tile from Oak Floor
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| Teamcasa 2006-03-30, 5:21 pm |
| The idiot that owned my house before me covered the Oak flooring in the hall
with glue down vinyl tiles. {A section 4'x12'.) Is it worth trying to
remove the tiles and refinishing or should I just pull the entire floor and
start over?
Suggestions?
Dave
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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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| Goedjn 2006-03-30, 7:21 pm |
| On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:10:25 -0800, "Teamcasa" <dave@teamcasadot.org>
wrote:
>The idiot that owned my house before me covered the Oak flooring in the hall
>with glue down vinyl tiles. {A section 4'x12'.) Is it worth trying to
>remove the tiles and refinishing or should I just pull the entire floor and
>start over?
If it's real 3/4" oak, you might as well try. You can always pull it
up later. If the glue binds up sandpaper, try dry-ice and a wide
chisel.
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| "Goedjn" <prose@mail.uri.edu> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:10:25 -0800, "Teamcasa" <dave@teamcasadot.org>
> wrote:
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> If it's real 3/4" oak, you might as well try. You can always pull it
> up later. If the glue binds up sandpaper, try dry-ice and a wide
> chisel.
I'm not sure I would try dry ice.
I would try, in this order
-Scraper alone
-scraper then a solvent for the adhesive
-scraper then heat scrape for the remaining glue
One you get off what you can I would then sand and refinish.
Its a lot of elbow grease but may be worth it in the end. On the other hand,
maybe they were trying to cover a problem. Good luck.
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| Teamcasa 2006-03-30, 8:21 pm |
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>"No" said:
> I'm not sure I would try dry ice.
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> I would try, in this order
> -Scraper alone
> -scraper then a solvent for the adhesive
> -scraper then heat scrape for the remaining glue
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> One you get off what you can I would then sand and refinish.
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> Its a lot of elbow grease but may be worth it in the end. On the other
> hand, maybe they were trying to cover a problem. Good luck.
The flooring is 1/2"x 2" solid Oak strips. Nailed. Good point about the
vinyl covering a bad part. I've already replace one section in front of the
bathroom door.
Solvent - Heat gun - In the house? I'm not so sure its worth that much
trouble.
Thanks
Dave
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| A few years ago I rehabbed a 75 year old house, one bed room 12X14 had two
layers of peel and stick 12" tiles covering beautiful 3/4" oak floor. Once I
removed all the tiles I spent the next two days on my XXX with a razor
scraper and a bottle of simple green and lots of course steel wool. Was it
worth it...you bet it was....after sanding and refinishing with stain and
water based poly it looks like a million dollars. I did all the floors in
the house and this was by far the hardest but it was well worth it. Good
luck.
Muff
"Teamcasa" <dave@teamcasadot.org> wrote in message
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> The idiot that owned my house before me covered the Oak flooring in the
hall
> with glue down vinyl tiles. {A section 4'x12'.) Is it worth trying to
> remove the tiles and refinishing or should I just pull the entire floor
and
> start over?
> Suggestions?
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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| I am no expert on these matters, but one thing I always forget to
calculate into my projects is the cost of my own labor, trips to stores
(including $ for gas), headaches, long delays, etc.
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