Then he had to go over the floor with a scrapper to get al the extra glue and paper off the floor.
Then to our dismay, we also realize the vinyl had been glued onto underlayment. We had to remove this because otherwise the great room and kitchen wouldn't have been level. At first we were worried that the underlayment was glued down. Luckily (as lucky as this could have been), it was stapled down. So Mike was able to chip away the underlayment.
However, this left a sea of staples. Fast forward a couple hours, we sat and hammered them all into the existing subfloor. Thank God I have the most amazing dad who helped us out.
Before that though, we had to remove the carpet and tile that surrounded the front door. The carpet was a quick and easy removal. We cut and rolled it up into pieces. What we thought would be the harder part was the tile in front of the door.
But all it called for was a little elbow grease. And, again, some great dads! First, Mike use a screwdriver and hammer to pry up the tile.
To our surprise, the tile popped off easily.
The next part in the process was to remove the platform that the tile was applied to (it made it level with the old carpet). Mike had to use the drill to unscrew it from the subflooring.
Then Mike wedged the platform up. And this is wear the elbow grease comes in....
We're so excited to have gotten it done in one day. We only had one injury too! I'm telling you - I leave for an hour and Mike injures himself. He had to go get stiches on his finger because he destroyed it during the demo. Don't worry - he's fine now.
Anyways, the end result doesn't look all that pretty now, but it will! We're hoping to install the new flooring sometime this week.
Oh, and it got a little dusty during the demo...
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