How To Remove Hardwood Flooring (the EASY way!)

[@carpetgallery6564]

Tip to help you out. Pry up on tongue side of the hardwood instead of the groove side. The tongue is where the hardwood is nailed into. By doing this you will create more leverage on the nails and it will be easier to pry up.

[@TheBudderPiggy]

I just finished removing old hardwood flooring and you are correct.

[@guyrobinson7857]

Hey Carpet Gallery... Your one comment was very useful! Thank you so much for putting that comment on here. God bless.

[@hamburgrhelpless]

Yep, probably 3 times less effort required when you pry from the nailed-in side

[@wayneli8377]

this is 100% right

[@Jungilingus]

Bless you for this. MUCH easier

[@jtmtdm1978]

After doing floors for 25 years, I gotta say this gal is awesome. I wish I could find some help that is half as efficient and smart.

[@markcolby2927]

total waste of time, like her putting her tape on to remove flooring, lol. Of course the horny old contractors will love her.

[@1lapmagic]

You could try paying. The problem with guys who've been doing flooring for 25 years is you think everything costs the same as 25 years ago despite buying shit every day.

[@gregdisbrowe9967]

I used a roofing shovel to removed the flooring after cutting. So much easier on the back and knees.

[@methodswan]

Clear, concise, informative. Thank you!!

[@smarkevans]

Thanks for all the tips. Just FYI, there are several broken links to your recommended tools in case you have time to update them.

[@leannedeco9484]

I want to preserve my installed wood floors. How to pull up wood floors and preserve the wood? Is it possible?

[@rickyjah7745]

You want to cut the opposite way, get a row out, then slowly pull it up. It's very time consuming to preserve it completely.

[@malawigold747]

What about when the saw hits the staples/nails in the hardwood?

[@learner-long-life]

Great video, I like seeing it in action. Labeling the trim to reuse it later is ingenious. To reuse the planking, would you cut along the plank rather than perpendicular?

[@jgdlfamilyholidays5035]

So how did you pull up the boards at the walls? Did you have to cut them flush with the walls or were they laid up to the walls so came up easily?

[@JenWoodhouse1]

Since we removed the baseboards first, the floorboards came up easily at the walls. There's usually a slight gap at the walls to allow for floorboard expansion.

[@FredMcIntyre]

I knew you would pull it off! 😉😁 .... Nice work on the floor removal Jen! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

[@RayRv607]

Can this be done for just one plank of the floor without ruining the rest?

[@webera]

Fantastic demonstration

[@splifsis25]

I hope you putting up videos becomes a regular thing cause u could teach us alot!

[@johnhartin6178]

A breaker bar is more efficient

[@UserCAPTAIN]

Is it possible to place it back

[@thegooddoctor8479]

Prying from the tongue side is very important. You figure out which direction and face that same direction all day. I would get started with the hammer and prybar, then switch to using a spade shovel - after you've created a little room. You can work standing up at that point. Slam it under a board, avoiding the nails, and lift up with the leverage that you get from the added length from the shovel. Place the wood in an empty trash can and carry outside. I liked the numbering of the base molding as well. Good luck Ya'll, Hope you never have to do it again.

[@Fredfred91]

Thank you Jen 🙏

[@Indyman4288]

Do you absolutely have to take the trim off?

[@dpmeyer4867]

nice vid, but too bad that old wood floor was thrown out.

[@samschumacher2223]

Lmaoooo you could have just used a gutster demo bar 48" or 60" would have cut the time in half LOL do it the long way if you want.

[@gary24752]

With the cost of hardwood floor every effort should be made to salvage it.

[@pauldeiter59]

This might work if your hardwoods are not glued down. After doing demo on 1600 sq ft in my house (which was glued to concrete) this is total BS. Go to the rental place and get yourself the ride on floor scraper. dont mess around and you'll be done in 1/10th of th time.

[@brotherweitalk]

Awesome video!

[@jdbrookshire2708]

Good video for girls removing easy floors.

[@sdean4816]

I shouldn’t say this but being the typical male you’re very cute! You could come work on my house anytime.?.. You also produced a very nice informative video. Thank you for posting . It’s going to definitely help me remove some hardwood floor I need to get up.

[@nickf5204]

Instead of using a small pry bar, use a 34-40” pry bar…Much more leverage on the wood flooring and less strain on your body. Otherwise great work

[@JenWoodhouse1]

Thanks for the tip!

[@richarddomsicz670]

why didnt you just use a 5ft long wrecking bar and save your knees?

[@MapleBar777]

I can only imagine her trying to huff the “murder bar” around 🤣. Twice the effort in one tenth the time tho.

[@melindahang7]

How did you know how deep your floor is?

[@JenWoodhouse1]

Hi Melinda, We pulled up the first plank and measured the thickness of the board.

[@dongillis6769]

What would you do if your wooden floor were glued to a wooden subfloor? How would you remove that? I know it would be much more difficult.

[@rickgauden]

In this case you'd need a heavier hammer or a electric hammer with a wider claw

[@shelanefrizzell1256]

Wow please keep making videos 😍

[@johnhartin6178]

Oh no no no, your gonna be there all day. Yeesh, brother and i come in and rip that up without saws (clean an neat as well)

[@dappergreens4555]

My brother has a guy ripping up his kitchen. Not huge. 8 hrs later still tapping with hammer. MUCH smaller than the kitchen in video. This isn’t normal right? Seems wayyyyyyyy too slow.

[@Indyman4288]

@@dappergreens4555 he's milking the labor hrs. Keep asking him if he needs a red bull until he speeds the f up.

[@tkeosaksith]

I'm sure you had a time line to put down your new flooring, but it's a shame to waste does hardwood planks..

[@Coinspinner]

It is hard to get the boards right by the wall to come up, you can't circle saw them. That wasn't covered in this video.

[@lakeview8838]

Definitely did this the hard way

[@kellybakes]

So what is the easier way?

[@woozy607]

My back hurts just watching this, seems like there would b a machine to make this quick and easy

[@angleshara6899]

you are awesome!

[@tylerramsey3607]

Does this work also for flooring glued down on concrete sub floor?

[@johnhartin6178]

No

[@ehudsonification3811]

The only part of this video I found confusing was reusing the baseboards. You’re willing to throw out thousands of dollars in hardwood, but not spend $0.35/foot on new baseboards? Saving the baseboards means scraping off all the old caulking, removing all the bent finish nails/staples AND not cracking them while removing them. Complete waste of time in my opinion.

[@JenWoodhouse1]

We didn't reuse the baseboards.

[@larrytrejo1882]

Yep your right wast of time.😊

[@andrewmiller9207]

You should have refinish that oak floor...

[@Indegio]

If the owners want the baseboard salvaged they can do that. sometimes if its a weird type of base or if your doing one room they will keep the baseboard so it still matches the rest of the house.

[@calbeebbqbbq]

What's a metal ripper for?

[@hamiedmohammed144]

How about wood engineered glued down floor. What do you recommend.

[@TheSireverard]

a floor scraper, and a pallet buster. It's exhausting, but it can be done. Take care of yourself. I swung a 2# sledge for 15 hours removing glued engineered hardwood from my foyer and woke up the next day with a hand swollen to twice normal size.

[@navydad8916]

Staple removal was more time consuming and a pain than the actual wood removal.

[@snowwalker9999]

subscribed!

[@brettishihara5317]

How come you put your tape measure on your pants in the beginning?

[@gettingpast4391]

multimax fin sux! blade loosens up every 15 seconds. threw mine in the trash.

[@linkstale]

my home only has hardwood flooring no sub floor!!!!

[@ManoElMacho]

Those floors looked great already. Why go thru that trouble yikes

[@jasejackson9756]

She explained that she didn’t want 3 different types of floors in her house…I have the exact same problem in mine and doing the same project

[@Wavyboyangel029]

clean

[@RageCityBiscuit]

Crowbar for baseboard/shoe 1000 times faster.

[@andrewmiller9207]

I was cringing watching you run that saw over the beautiful hardwood floor....

[@grizzlycountry1030]

Gorgeous and Handy...what a dream woman! ❤

[@jetlim1477]

👍👍👍

[@gchevyman]

Great job. Just a note: please help recycle used wood to others 👍💪 gc

[@andrewmiller9207]

Looks like you tore up 3.5" white oak.....geez...not sure what your lutting down instead...

[@olivertheferret6910]

I have fake bamboo wood it’s a light weird liking wood but I really wanted to stain it fair wood but becuase it’s fake laminated wood ig I can’t do I wanna remove it

[@RICHIE_RICH89]

Never would of did that . True hardwood never dies tiles do. They go out in 5 yrs. New come in. I would of stained it a darker color

[@TeamProsperity]

Wow a gorgeous chick that knows her way around tools and DIY stuff, doesn’t het any hotter than this. btw Jen, the last time I removed a floor like that It was kinda going slow so I contacted a buddy of mine and he gave me 27oz of C-4 and said try this so I did n I gotta tell yeah, it worked great at getting that floor outta the way 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💥🔥I love your videos, well done. btw, that old oak flooring would make some nice projects

[@randyayo2846]

Try pulling up UA floors...this video will be 3 weeks long

[@nope53926]

What are UA floors?

[@randyayo2846]

@@nope53926 Flooring I had in my house, we had moisture issues (which everyone in south Louisiana does). Started pulling them up and they were splintering and the bottom layer was stuck most of the time. I couldn’t manage it with my jobs so I hired 4 guys to rip it up.

[@enkrypt3d]

this doesn't work that well for glued down hardwood floors....

[@littleche7676]

Dang i have 2000 sqft to remove 😭

[@viking6535]

I absolutely hate hardwood floors. That's what we have through out our house. Yeah, they look nice, but for me, way too much upkeep, and they make way too much noise. I'm to the point of selling our house and building a 1 story home on a patio slab.

[@badmeme6801]

I see where you're coming from but if you were to go with something like carpet, there's just way too much dust everywhere.

[@mbrew3244]

That's too bad you feel that way. But chacun son gout. If you have allergies h.wood floors are the best

[@TheLisaGate]

We are pulling up carpet now. Horrible. Allergies got better over night!

[@melinageofashion]

No need remove trim huge wrong!!! Just cut across trim side then one nail pull out left over piece an you done save time

[@robizsuzsi]

thats crazy u might reuse the 25 y old baseboard ???

[@gladenacole1524]

I'm just gonna pour water on my floor and let it bow

[@davidperry4013]

I would replace hardwood with high quality carpet in the bedrooms and repurpose the old hardwood as wall paneling.

[@RC-ld3cn]

Carpet holds Bettles.

[@doublej118jc]

Babe!

[@jeffroid6275]

You're beautiful and handy You're perfect

[@Cityraised901]

Just lost a comment .. there and gone…

[@BobRooney290]

no easy way for me. you're removing an almost pristine floor, likely not very old. i have a 100 year old floor in a 1940's building. the flooring is only in one out of 3 rooms. its oak flooring and most of it is individually warped, damaged in a few areas, and rotted in a corner. the rot goes into the subfloor, which i have removed. the beams look good with no damage. i patched the subfloor but need to remove the oak. unfortunately, the nails are from the 1940s and are all rusted, which means the pry bar and hammer are a bad idea. being on the knees and breaking my back for days on end is not gonna happen. i'll likely get a Crescent bull bar. once i remove the oak flooring, i think i'll just add a 2nd layer of chipboard subflooring to secure it from the squeaking. it squeaks a lot. then i'll add a brand new layer of hardwood, likely oak.

[@jaycole3768]

The way to long. Try starting at a doorway then 1-2 rows at a time and with a big demo pry bar.

[@khandam7709]

what a freaking waste. old floors looked fine. they don't need to all match.

[@martinburch]

This is horrible. No one should ever, EVER tear out original hardwood. What an awful thing to do.

[@LeosKingdom8]

This is torture. Your better off with a wood chipper

[@Marvinfj32]

Waste of beautiful wood

[@jcardosa02]

what a waste of wood. someone could've used it

[@richray4893]

Kinda sad. The old hardwood floor was much nicer than the new fake laminate. I will never understand why anyone wants to remove something so beautiful and replace it with Home Depot vanilla laminate nothing. The French oak plank looks like it has no depth to the grain and absolutely no warmth. I have put in floors with character that these folks have never seen in their lives. What a shame.

[@JenWoodhouse1]

It's not laminate.

[@nyer070]

You talk a little too much otherwise good

[@hvacthrills8490]

Thank u bichhhh

[@curtisschierling1537]

Get to the point, voted down and I left because Holy cow, stop talking and making stupid filler, I don't need to see you out on all your crap.

[@JenWoodhouse1]

Take your meds, Curtis.

[@bothfeetin]

Wait!? What!? You got rid of the hardwood floors? 🤦‍♂️ good informative video btw