Question by srikseenappa: Need help stripping laminate flooring?
Pls answer my question ASAP.
My house is in a mess and I need to get it fixed ASAP.
I have hard wood laminate glued down in my foyer and kitchen.Area is a total of 450 sf.
I’m looking to replaace it with porcelain tiles as I have some water damage.
I have hired a contractor and he has no clue how to pull out the hard wood floor.
He tried chipping away the strips one by one. But it is an old hard wood floor and has been glued down real strong. Also the bottom portion of the wood strip breaks into individual square shaped ridges. So he tears of the top laminate first and then each 1″*1″ square piece has to be manually chipped. This is time consuming.
We rented a tile stripper machine from Lowes and that did not help either.
The contractor tells me that there is some machine that helps to do this pretty fast.
Do you know of any machine?
Do you suggest any different approach for stripping all the wood?
The contractor is from El Salvador and communication is a big hinderance.

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Answer by lowman03
Your best bet is to install a hardi backer board over the flooring which is a cement board product and then install your ceramic tile over that..It would take days and alot of elbow grease to remove 450sf of hardwood flooring that is glued down. The hardi backer board or sometimes called durok can be purchased anywhere they sell ceramic tile. It comes in 1/4″ thick or 1/2.. Hope this helps…

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Question by mandynjoseph: How do I remove laminate flooring?
It’s those sticky laminate tiles, underneath it is the houses concrete foundation…they’ve been there since the early 80’s I’m guessing. When I try to scrape it they tear apart. Is there a tool to make it easier? I saw them taking it off with a long handeled scraper on T.V., what is that called? It’s a small area so I don’t want to rent one of those stripping machines. Any ideas to make this easier?

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Answer by Amber K
Here is a website with directions:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2002639_repair-laminate-floor.html

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Question by gg: I want to buy an elliptical Machine. Will it dent hardwood flooring or would laminate floor be better?

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Answer by Graymatter
The Laminate flooring is much more durable then wood when it comes to moving around alot. Hard wood is expensive to install and fix, were as laminate is half the price.

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Question by oskeewow13: Is it a bad idea to place a treadmill(running machine) on laminate flooring?
If you ever placed a treadmill on top of laminate flooring, please let me know what happened. Thanks!

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Answer by James
I would place it on a non-slip carpet, cause my guess is it wouldn’t end well. Just a guess though.

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