Easiest Way To Remove Hardwood Floors

So cutting them into smaller pieces of wood makes it easier to pry up.

Easiest way to remove hardwood floors. Start by busting dust. And have a pile of salvaged wood pieces ready to be donated. Next use a vacuum to remove hard to reach dirt in room corners and between floorboards.

Determine the thickness of the hardwood flooring to be removed. This is helpful because hardwood planks are all different lengths and make it really tough to remove quickly. While it may be tempting to skip this step it s not recommended.

Pry up the first few boards to give yourself room to work. Okay so the fastest way to remove old hardwood floors is to cut the boards into smaller sections. Dry mopping sweeping and or vacuuming on a.

Get hardworking hardwood spic and span with these safe solutions for dusting deep cleaning and stain removal. Alternatively use a circular saw with a carbide tooth blade to make a plunge cut along the length of the sacrificial board and use a pry. Place a ruler through the joint to the subfloor below gaining an accurate measurement of the floorboard thickness.

Afterward mop using a micro cloth and concentrated cleaner specially made for hardwood floors. You can do this by checking the floorboards against the walls. So that you know stiff bristles can scratch the wood s surface.

If you re in a rush you can lick your finger and rub out the most minor surface scratches. Our flooring is about 3 4 inches thick so i set the blade depth about 3 4 inches deep so that the blade cut through the hardwood floors without cutting into the plywood subfloor. Test your floor s finish.