How do I take up old vinyl flooring tiles and prepare the floor to lay new ones?
Vinyl flooring tiles are very easy to remove and replace. To remove the old tiles use a wide scraper, a 3-inch wallpaper scraper is ideal, and a hammer. If the tiles are difficult to remove a blast of heat from a hairdryer will help. Once you have the edge of a tile up it is relatively simple to strip off. If there are any thick patches of glue remove them by using ‘Toluene’ – an adhesive remover, this product is also known as Evo-stik Adhesive Remover. Once you have removed all the tiles check the surface level of the remaining adhesive. If, as is probable, this is protruding or there are holes on the floor, skim over the whole floor with self-levelling compound. This will take 48 hours to be ready for laying your new tiles.
