For some reason, my mother-in-law had awful wood effect floor tiles nailed and glued onto the floor boards in her bedroom (she has passed away and we have inherrited the house). 3/4 of the room is glued, 1/4 isnt, and that was the bit i took up first. Getting the rest off with a hammer will take ages, and we will be left with lumpy glue everywhere. My electrician told me he would rip the floor up completely and start again as its tongue and groove, so you cant even flip the boards over. Any advice would be very welcome! Thanks in advance.
Wood – Upstairs wooden floor, covered in glue after removing tiles. Advice
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Best Answer
A few years ago I was removing the tile from my kitchen floor with two friends. We spent the entire morning getting about 3 s.f. done, trying many solvents in the process. One of us then inadvertently spilled a cup of coffee on the floor. Lo and behold, the wetted tiles came up easily. Water did the trick on the rest of them. It must have been a horse-hoof glue or something similar that was water based. Hard to believe that held so successfully for the nearly 100 years my house has been in existence, and was so hard to remove until we discovered that water was the solvent.