How To Lift Floor Boards
Lever one end up and jam an old screwdriver as far down away from the lifted end as you can so that the free end is held up in the air away from the joist.
How to lift floor boards. Then keep whacking the free end. How to lift floorboards lifting square edged floorboards. Square edged floorboards are the easiest to lift especially in older houses as they.
On the board that you are trying to lift you need to examine it and find the nails holding the board to the joist then draw a cut line using a ruler and marker pen pencil between the nails. If it is caulked cut through he caulk with a utility knife to avoid pulling paint off the wall. Now a suitable saw needs to be used to cut the tongue off from each side of the board to be lifted.
The rest of the board past the screwdriver that is still nailed will eventually pop up. When cutting through a. Removing a tongue and grooved floorboard is slightly more difficult as you will.