ugh! check this out. not good. not good!so there are at least five or six layers of flooring on top of the original subfloor inthis 100-year old bathroom. today i’m going to be removing all those layers of flooring,show you how i’m going to do it. you may have different tips that have helped you outwith your own project. so add those down to the comments at the end of the video. i’vealso got a surprise tool giveaway for you, so don’t miss out on that. that’s at theend of the video. so let’s dive into this project right now.always wear a respirator, some goggles, and gloves when removing a floor. i tried to removethe top layer first. so the top layer was a linoleum, and the linoleum was on top ofâ¼â€wood luan. any screws or nails poking
out of the floor, you want to remove themwith your hammer or a super bar. put them in the can so you don’t step on them.so the top layer, again, was just linoleum over a â¼â€ luan. you can also try to removethe top layer with a shovel or a floor scraper. now fortunately in this case i did not haveany tile. i have to admit it made the process a lot easier. and i’m using the claw ofmy hammer to remove the multiple layers of stuff that’s on the floor.actually i’m going to show you something and how ridiculous this flooring is. it actually—i’msorry to say this—pisses me off quite a bit because all people did was just lay floorover floor over floor over floor. think about all the weight on the joist because of thatfloor. but let me show you something. check
this out. this is like cardboard almost. thisis ridiculous! garbage. this is the original subfloor. this is what i need to get downto. there is all the linoleum. we’re going to take that out and get down to this badboy right here. it’s not a bad idea to use one of thesehusky contractor bags to throw the material into after you remove about 3 or 4 sq ft offlooring. pound any nails back into the floor. then i found that the super bar and the clawportion of the hammer worked great to getting up underneath the old flooring and removingit. see that corner right over there? right there?this was in the corner. looks like a medieval torture device. this is tongue and grooveflooring so i’m just going to pitch this
and replace it with some 2†tongue and grooveoak hardwood floor. so i just figured out what the heck this is.this is like peg board. they put peg board on top of the original subfloor. can you believethat?! ugh! unfortunately, there were some screws. soi just removed those with an impact driver. the ones i couldn’t remove i cut off usingmy oscillating multi-tool. once you get all the screws out, then youcan get up underneath the old flooring with a super bar or a larger pry bar. i don’twant my larger pry bar with me today, so i’m just using my super bar.now in this case i lucked out a little bit, and a big chunk of the old linoleum luan pulledright off the floor. thank goodness because
this was getting tiring. and that allowedme to access the multiple layers underneath the old linoleum. but i encountered a problem.i ran into a little bit of a problem. the linoleum and old floor ran underneath thebathtub. i’m keeping the bathtub. i know it looks in rough shape, but it’s not abad tub. so i need to cut a relief right here using my multi-tool. i just got fein’s newstarlock plus in the mail. so they sent me the fein starlock plus. i’m going to givethis a shot using a metal blade and just cut along here so that i can then remove all ofthe old subfloor. one of the things that i really like aboutthe starlock plus is the fact that they eliminated the pin. there used to be a pin here thatyou would pull out and then put your accessory
and then put the pin in and put the leverin place. that lever used to catch my thumb or finger—it hurt like heck! so what theydid is they eliminated the pin. now they have a new mechanism here. and all you do is releasethe lever and push in the accessory. and it locks into place, and you put the lever backdown. so that’s really convenient. you know sometimes tools do make it a lot easier.believe it or not, this old tub is level. but as i approach the door, the gap betweenthis portion of the tub and the subfloor is getting narrow or smaller. so i have to switchout to this starlock accessory right here because it allows me to reach underneath thereand cut. it’s hard to see, but there’s a screwhere. i’m going to use my super bar in this
direction. now here’s a little tip: if thescrew is hard to get out, you can put your foot over it while pulling the super bar.that way the screw or the nail doesn’t fly up into your face.yes! yes! yes! yes! that was the last piece—well, almost thelast piece. i have to take out the toilet and remove the rest. but for now, that wasthe rest of this floor. so i hope that you liked this video tutorial. hopefully it helpsyou out and gives you some tips for how to remove a bathroom floor.now here is the surprise—i’m out of breath—so we’re going to be giving away the brandnew starlock plus multi-master by fein. how do you enter into the giveaway? whoo! well,down in the comments here on youtube, tell
me why you need the starlock plus multi-master,what project you’re going to be working on—maybe it’s something like this or somethingelse—and you will be randomly entered into the giveaway, and we’ll pick a winner oneweek from today. if you miss this giveaway, and it’s too late for you, it’s a goodreason to subscribe to our email newsletter over on homerepairtutor.com and subscribeto our youtube channel here on youtube. so again, hope that you liked today’s videotutorial. i wanted to make sure that i showed you all the details so that it helps you outwith your project. so that’s it. i’ll see you in the comments.take care. have a great day.