Removing Parquet Flooring Forum

Sweep up and remove all dirt and debris left on the floor.

Removing parquet flooring forum. Step 3 clean up. I bought a floor chisel at home depot and am using a 3 or 5 lb sledge. Vibrating machine or electric jackhammer. After loosening and removing parquet blocks you may find a residue of bitumen or glue remaining on the floor beneath it.

Removing parquet on wood sub floors is likely to be the most time consuming and troubling. The next phase of removing the leftover floor adhesive glue was truly a bear. Subfloor preparation this is the place to post for questions on prep work. The flooring was glued down to the plywood in squares like tile and looks like its been there about 25 years.

We have been trying to chisel it up with hammers wide putty knives pry bar and the problem is the glue is so strong that the wood is just breaking. Generally it s more advisable to forget tearing it out and install another sub floor over top but depends on what type of flooring you re replacing it with. How to remove parquet flooring from concrete. We are trying to remove an old wooden parquet floor from the kitchen floor.

You will find fitters from your local area more than willing to help. If flooring beneath the parquet is concrete use a grinder to remove the bitumen that remains adhered to it. Removing parquet flooring discussion in general diy started by jeffrey123 3 jun 2003. It is pretty easy to remove the parquet from the concrete floor especially comparing to plywood removal.

This topic originated from the how to page called wood block parquet floors. To loosen the tile you have to apply some force and high frequency vibration. Some of the floor is coming up ok but most of it is breaking into pieces and just not wanting to. Is the u k s no1 flooring advice forum for end users to fitters.

I feel like i tried. I am trying to remove wood parquet floor tiles.