How To Remove Vinyl Sheet Flooring From Concrete

Use a hammer to tap a stiff putty knife or brick chisel under the linoleum to break it loose.

How to remove vinyl sheet flooring from concrete.

Scrape the remaining glue with a floor scraper or pry bar. For vinyl floor removal use the utility knife to cut the vinyl flooring into small rectangular strips that are about 6 8 inches in width. Removing baseboard from the edges of the floor is your first work. To remove old resilient flooring first cut it into parallel strips about 6 inches wide with a utility knife.

Scrape linoleum or vinyl floor glue. You can use a commercial adhesive stripper or use. Pull the linoleum up in strips to reveal the backing or the glue. Move the putty knife underneath the vinyl flooring in swift in and out motion and lift the flooring piece towards you.

Insert the floor putty knife on the edge of the flooring and slide it underneath it. Once you ve removed as much as you can with the prybar use the 5 in 1 tool or any floor scraper tool to scrape off the. How to remove vinyl flooring with a concrete subfloor cut and pull up the vinyl in narrow strips to reveal the glue. It is because baseboard sticks the edges of the flooring.

This is a step by step tutorial on removing sheet viny. If removal is more difficult use a heat gun to soften the adhesive. With a freshly sharpened five in one tool force the sharp end between the sheet vinyl and subfloor in jabbing strokes. If the adhesive is old you will discover that the tool chips away the adhesive fairly easily.