I am currently working on a new rental house that we just purchased. It never fails to amaze me how people can go into a house to steal copper that totals about $20 and does over $20,000 damage to a home.
This happens to be the case on a house we are currently working at now. They have gone in and stolen all the copper plumbing from the house and clipped wires to try to take out the copper from inside. This will be another post I will be working on later this month.
Today, I want to discuss the replacing of kitchen flooring or any flooring for that matter. I will have pictures tomorrow of what I am working on. We bought this home and it had decent kitchen pergo flooring. Not in bad shape at all except for the fact that when you walked on it it felt like you were walking on a air mattress. So my job was to remove the flooring and see what the problem was underneath.
If you have never done this before, thats ok this was my first time as well. I am "Floor Replacement Virgin!" For you ladies out there that think that you can't do this ....YOU CAN!! If I did it you can too! First, you must go around the baseboards with a small crowbar and gently remove the baseboards and any quarter round moulding. Pull up any floor vents in the room and remove any floor stripping entering other rooms. Once you have done this you can find a good starting point to start removing the flooring. I had the slide in pergo flooring to remove. After I removed the first few pieces the others just slid out easily. If you are lucky there won't be any other flooring to remove. That was not the case for me...I had 8 more layers of old flooring to remove. This house had been built back in 1948 and had the flooring to prove it!
Somehow the floor had gotten wet from a water leak and was still very wet underneath. It was like that 4 layers down. I started with the first layer of linoleum and started ripping it out and removing nails as I went.
In my next post I will have pictures and more details of how this job is coming along!
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