Removal of glued wood flooring - Page 2 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

iwrock · #16 03-27-2018, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by TMAllison

no nail grids present in the pics, appears glued down over a slab to my eye.

Use the aforementioned lino scraper, can be rented also.

Will probably need a 4 or 8" razor blade scraper to cut the glue off down to slab level.

It was wood (maybe bamboo, can't confirm) glued straight down to the slab. Several chunks that we pulled up had water below it. :/

The lino scraper didn't work that great. Due to the length and width of the flooring, it would get caught up pretty easily. The scraper did work awesome at scraping up rogue chunks of glue. Believe it had an 8 inch blade.

t walgamuth · #17 03-27-2018, 02:26 PM

Looks pretty good!

TMAllison · #18 03-27-2018, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

And you can see them when installed in the t & G?

That looks like T & G which is normally blind nailed down in the groove so you cannot see the heads of the nails.

The T&G 3/4" with blind nailing may be more of an East Coast thing. West Coast, most older hardwood was 3/8" x 2" oak or 3,5,8" and nailed down over a plywood subfloor. Not to say there isn't ANY T&G in CA, there is.

No nails and a wider/darker plank suggested to me a newer floor over a conc slab. Plus, iwrock said as much originally.

my83300cd · #19 03-27-2018, 08:26 PM

Had a leak into an apartment with brand new bamboo flooring throughout. Leak was from owner installed cheapo door at a terrace. A few feet next to door heaved. There was no more leak, as it had stopped raining. Moisture meter readings showed dry floor about 6 feet away.
I was back 2 days later, still no rain, as the entire apartment floor was trashed and heaved, as the water migrated through the bamboo. There never was any water in the apartment downstairs (concrete slab floor)...the entire floor was uniformly wet with a moisture meter

Make sure the slab is dry enough to take the new floor.

iwrock · #20 03-28-2018, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by my83300cd

Had a leak into an apartment with brand new bamboo flooring throughout. Leak was from owner installed cheapo door at a terrace. A few feet next to door heaved. There was no more leak, as it had stopped raining. Moisture meter readings showed dry floor about 6 feet away.
I was back 2 days later, still no rain, as the entire apartment floor was trashed and heaved, as the water migrated through the bamboo. There never was any water in the apartment downstairs (concrete slab floor)...the entire floor was uniformly wet with a moisture meter

Make sure the slab is dry enough to take the new floor.

Yeah, with how things are going, I don't think we're going to put flooring back until mid-May at the earliest. I've got most of the bottom 2 feet of sheetrock torn out of my master bedroom/master bath, 60 feet of siding off the back side of the house, then more sheetrock torn out of the dining room/family room. I've also got to address some old mold that's in the laundry room and what I think might be mold under the cabinets in the kitchen... So I've got tons of time before the floor actually goes back in.

Fun, right? If I would have known owning a house would have been this much of a pain in the rear, I'd have just kept renting!

t walgamuth · #21 03-28-2018, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by TMAllison

The T&G 3/4" with blind nailing may be more of an East Coast thing. West Coast, most older hardwood was 3/8" x 2" oak or 3,5,8" and nailed down over a plywood subfloor. Not to say there isn't ANY T&G in CA, there is.

No nails and a wider/darker plank suggested to me a newer floor over a conc slab. Plus, iwrock said as much originally.

Yes he did....but it was you who brought up nails.

By that time I had forgotten his comment about glue.

I did a job where we attempted to glue hardwood directly to concrete and it did not go well with our humid summers.

my83300cd · #22 03-28-2018, 05:41 PM

Often in NYC wood parquet flooring was glued to the concrete slabs in high rise residential buildings with mastic...the good old asbestos containing kind. Removal is nasty at best, and not cheap.
I will take subfloor and toenailed hardwood any day over that.

iwrock · #23 07-02-2018, 12:51 AM

Things are movin' and shakin' at the iwrock household!

We wound up ripping all of the flooring out because all of the wood was done for and the carpet that wasn't wet wasn't easy to match... Started laying Pergo and this was midway at the beginning of the process in the great room:

After 5 hours I made it to this point:

Had to start again, and finally finished this half of the room:

Started with 90 boxes of Pergo, have 48 boxes left. It's actually pretty easy to install once you get the hang of it, but the process has been rough on the knees and the back. Installing it for 6-8 hours straight has proven to be quite difficult!

my83300cd · #24 07-02-2018, 07:06 PM

Nice going. Cutting it shorter was a good move.
So what are you going back with?

I cringe when I see someone sledging on a plaster lath wall when all you really need is a cheapo circular saw with a beat blade, depth set right, run vertically on the wall about a foot apart. The wall basically falls apart, and the studs are unharmed Of course, goggles and a real respirator are needed, and dust management can be challenging.