How To Take Up Vinyl Flooring

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

How to take up vinyl flooring. Remove all of the furniture in the room. For vinyl plank flooring or vinyl tile flooring pry up a corner of one of the tiles with a putty knife. If it comes up far enough slip the putty knife underneath it and pry the tile or plank completely off.

The middle of the vinyl flooring lays loose. Then repeat scoring every 10 in. To remove old resilient flooring first cut it into parallel strips about 6 inches wide with a utility knife.

To remove vinyl flooring you must first take all furniture out of the room giving yourself unimpeded access to the work area. Scrape linoleum or vinyl floor glue. Cut out the subfloor and linoleum or vinyl flooring as one piece.

Keep your cut parallel to the walls and see if the center of the flooring pulls up easily. Cut through the flooring around the perimeter of the room about 8 inches away from the walls. Remove any trim along the floor including baseboards.

All the way across the room. Step 2 remove trim. If you plan on salvaging the trim to use again carefully use a flathead screwdriver to pry the baseboards and trim away from the wall in sections.

Measure out 10 in. You ll also need to carefully remove all baseboards and any other. Also remove any appliances that are placed over the vinyl flooring.