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  • how to remove stuck down lino?
  • granny_ring
    Full Member

    The edges are stuck down like a bastid, can’t get the scraper underneath.
    Hot air gun?
    Cheers

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    Start at the door

    Use a spade.

    tomd
    Free Member

    I had a similar problem recently except with cork tiles. The best way I found in the in the end was going bezerk with a bolster and a lump hammer. If there’s a better way I’d love to have known, they were impervious to a hot air gun and broke anything less than a bolster.

    This:
    http://www.screwfix.com/p/roughneck-brick-bolster-guard-4-x-8-/55448?kpid=55448&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%2520Listing%2520Ads-_-Sales%2520Tracking-_-sales%2520tracking%2520url&gclid=Cj0KEQjwqtjGBRD8yfi9h42H9YUBEiQAmki5Oqxjgz9ZnyNm8JFPkGQ1wxFpUu4BTzzPq8hqSXGVYusaAsSa8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CPCds8eR8tICFQKnUQod6cYHAg

    and

    http://www.screwfix.com/p/forge-steel-fibreglass-handle-club-hammer-4lb/7025c

    jambourgie
    Free Member

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JerVHGoj-d0[/video]

    pacef8
    Free Member

    Boiling water and a spade . Honestly it does work .

    granny_ring
    Full Member

    Cheers good stout about the spade

    oldfart
    Full Member

    I tried everything ! In the end it was the spade that did it ( eventually ! ) Destroyed my Dutch hoe in the interim , finally brought in the big guns ! Took me a fair few goes over quite a few days mind , hands hurt like buggery for ages after ! Good luck !

    llama
    Full Member

    on the third day I decided to rip up and replace the floorboards

    Ming the Merciless
    Free Member

    Spade

    Blazin-saddles
    Free Member

    You brought in the Dutch hoes? did that help?

    takisawa2
    Full Member

    Far too much talk of Dutch Hoes. Clearly not the right approach. Chap up there reckons he’s destroyed one. 😯 That won’t come without complications.

    My brother had a Westie some years ago, that had no problem taking up the whole kitchen floor one afternoon.

    z1ppy
    Full Member

    floor scraper worked for me (not this particular one but of this ilk) through you still need to get under a tile to start with

    hammyuk
    Free Member

    Get a proper floor scraper/blade – far simpler and a lot less work.

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    Has anyone suggested nuking it from orbit yet?

    It’s the only way to be sure.

    wilburt
    Free Member

    Can I avoid breaking my hoe by laying laminate on top of the vinyl?

    ghostlymachine
    Free Member

    We used an oscilating multi tool thing to get the stuff up in our place. Took a couple of days. But with the right blade you could just go through wherever you wanted. Then work out to the edge…..

    hammyuk
    Free Member

    [video]http://youtu.be/8jt4RtXJGAg[/video]

    granny_ring
    Full Member

    I’ve only got a small area to do, reckon the boiling water will soften it a tad and spade will do it….. 🙂

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    Wilburt.

    Then afterwards if you want carpet just lay that onto the laminate. Repeat adnausem until you don’t fit into the room anymore….

    Get it removed propper.

    granny_ring
    Full Member

    Update.
    Spade and boiling water worked but was still a bi*ch to get up…
    Cheers for the advice.

    SaxonRider
    Full Member

    I guess if you already got it up, my suggestion will be too late, but when I had to do an entire, large kitchen floor with every square centimetre stuck down with kind of super-duper glue, I found part way through that a heat gun worked magnificently.

    granny_ring
    Full Member

    Heat gun was my first thought and maybe would have been less messy 🙂

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