How to Remove Linoleum Flooring

Allie Wachter
by Allie Wachter
When we first bought our house, there was some pretty thick carpet in the dining room. Between the foam underlayment and the carpet, the step up to the kitchen flooring wasn't noticeable. When we removed the carpet, the tripping began. Each time the kitchen was updated in the past, the new flooring was installed right on top of the old flooring. This inevitably led to a pretty major tripping hazard. We ended up having to use 2 different thresholds in order to build up to the height of the kitchen flooring. The unsightly double-threshold was just one of the reasons we decided to update our kitchen flooring during the remodel. The floor was starting to look weathered and didn't fit in with the rest of the house anymore. See how we removed 4 layers or flooring!
Shows all the different layers, minus the hidden layer of plywood between the two linoleum layers.
Removing the floating linoleum tiles was a breeze!
Nippers were needed to pull out staples that held together multiple layers of flooring.
We used floor scrappers to pull up linoleum in big chunks.
Finished.
Allie Wachter
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  • Kim Kim on Oct 28, 2017

    How do I remove the lenolium glue?

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