4 cover the rip with blue painter s tape and cover the repaired area with a brick heavy enough to hold the repair in place.
Im ripoing up vinyl floor.
With a plywood subfloor you have two choices.
You can scrape it off with a floor scraper or you can cover it with plastic.
Remove any excess glue from the floor using the solvent recommended on the adhesive container.
A good flooring to install over an existing floor is rigid vinyl core.
If the vinyl is glued you have two options.
2 why cannot laminate be installed over vinyl tiles that have been glued.
3 in the latter case instead of pulling up the vinyl tiles a major messy piece of work can i put plastic then foam underlayment and then laminate.
Cut a repair patch the same size as the hole from a scrap of vinyl flooring.
1 in general does well laid level clean and old vinyl flooring provide a moisture barrier.
4 can i install rigid.
Pull up the damaged section of vinyl flooring.
Vinyl flooring looks great when first installed but eventually it can run its course.
Scrape away the linoleum or vinyl and glue with a wide putty knife utility knife brick chisel paint scraper hammer or a bully flooring scraper.
For how to remove vinyl tile start by scoring the vinyl photo 1.
For sheet flooring or rolled flooring or vinyl flooring tiles that are larger than 2x2 feet square you will want to score the flooring into 12 inch strips to make it easier to handle and pull up.
How to repair vinyl flooring.
It is easy to install over many types of existing floors including ceramic with grout lines.
The best way to tear out vinyl flooring is to pull up the vinyl and then go back and remove the remaining glue and pieces of flooring.
Take up peeling flooring to allow the surface of the subfloor to dry out.
Remove any adhesive on the subfloor.
Dated worn or torn vinyl flooring cannot easily or effectively be repaired.
If your flooring has suffered from water damage.
Next adjust the angle on the floor scraper until it pulls up vinyl without gouging the subfloor.
Sometimes your vinyl flooring can suffer from small cuts or cracks due to normal wear and tear and can even peel up at the corners if the adhesive becomes dry.
Apply vinyl flooring adhesive to the subfloor.
Both wood plastic composite and stone plastic composite have a thick rigid core that will hide any imperfections in the subfloor.
Then turn it on and let er rip photo 2.
Cut out the subfloor and linoleum or vinyl flooring as one piece.
Often the best way to deal with this is to replace it with another floor covering in many cases it is easiest simply to leave the vinyl flooring in place and to install the new floor covering over it.