[Closed] how to remove stuck down lino?

Start at the door

Use a spade.

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:
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and

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

Boiling water and a spade . Honestly it does work .

Cheers good stout about the spade

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 !

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

Spade

You brought in the Dutch hoes? did that help?

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.

[url= http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p61818?mkwid=s22l43ki0_dt&pcrid=142002554548&pkw=&pmt=&product=61818&gclid=Cj0KEQjwqtjGBRD8yfi9h42H9YUBEiQA ]floor scraper[/url] worked for me (not this particular one but of this ilk) through you still need to get under a tile to start with

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

Has anyone suggested nuking it from orbit yet?

It's the only way to be sure.

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

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.....

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

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.

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

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.

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