We are so excited to be ripping out the ugly linoleum floor in the kitchen! We wanted to do it the first day we got keys to the house but were worried about asbestos. So after testing and getting the green light, we are moving along with figuring out how to get it out of the house. We are using the nook area as our test as we can make a mess and still use the kitchen. We started with a heat gun to soften it, but Andrew moved much faster without it and just started pulling it up. We also have wood floors underneath! Our plan is the remove everything, sand the floor down and re-finish it.
After the bulk of the linoleum was off the floor, we were left with a lot of glue and paper backing. I spent an hour scraping a small 2' area and decided to do research for a more time efficient method of getting it up. I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI-8v5d3mqY but thought it was a little more than I wanted to get into, and then talked to a friend who suggested water and soap. Luckily it doesn't seem we have a tar based glue, and the water and soap worked really well. It softened the paper and after soaking for a few minutes was easy to scrape away. We will probably have to do it a few more times to get rid of the glue, but we are getting closer to the wood!
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