i have just removed a vinyl flooring. They were backed with a tar like paper and attached with a tacky substance like contact adhesive. I would like to get the floors sanded how would i remove the contact adhesive without damaging the flooring colour and the timber itself?
There is no easy way.Start by lifting what you can,then proceed with a hand scraper until you get to the wood next start sanding with a coarse paper and work your way up until you have a smooth floor apply sealer and two coats of finish.
Les Galko
Flooring Canada
| 1. |
Please advise whether it is ok to apply a water-based polyurethane product on my 51 year old oak floors? The f ... |
| 2. |
I will be tearing up the carpet on my main-to-second-floor stairs and replacing it with regular 3/4" pre-finis ... |
| 3. |
Hi,
We have heard differing opinions on hardwood vs. laminate when installing either in a basement or o ... |
| 4. |
My husband and I are looking at replacing the kitchen flooring. Right now it is linoleum. We have looked at ... |
| 5. |
Hi Les,
I have a couple of questions about laminate floors. I am going to be installing laminate flooring ... |
| 6. |
I have a cottage that is unheated in the winter and want to put wood or laminate flooring in. I understand fro ... |
| 7. |
Hi Les!
I am replacing the carpet in a bedroom with snap 'n' click laminate flooring. I would lik ... |
| 8. |
We are planning on covering our 10 year old cushionfloor in the kitchen with laminate flooring. How do we jud ... |
| 9. |
I am finishing the basement in my two year old home. We are considering installing laminate flooring ourselves ... |
| 10. |
I want to put hardwood on the main level of my townhouse and wonder if it is advisable to put hardwood in my k ... |
| 11. |
Hello,
After having stored a carpet rolled up in plastic on my hardwood floor for six months, I noticed aft ... |
| 12. |
Hi,
I would like to install hardwood on radiant floor heating, but am concerned that the constant heat will c ... |
| 13. |
Les, we are planning on installing laminate flooring in our kitchen. We now have indoor/outdoor kitchen carpe ... |
| 14. |
we have just moved into this house. we tore up the carpet in the front entrance (11' x 14')only to find that t ... |
| 15. |
Hello
I dont know if you do hardwood also but i thought i would ask anyways....
I have two large dogs an ... |
| 16. |
I want to remove the rubber backed carpet from one of my bedrooms, there is very nice hardwood floor under the ... |
| 17. |
Have chosen to use 3in1 product instead of cork. Better ratings and charcteristics all around at the same pric ... |
| 18. |
hello pierre
i was looking at buying a rental condo that currently has wall-to-wall carpet. i have had ten ... |
| 19. |
How do you repair chips on laminate and gaps in joints?
Also using a thin basic pad as underlay on concrete w ... |
| 20. |
I cleaned my recently installed pre-finished hardwood floors with Pledge Wood Floor Cleaner, and it left a res ... |
| 21. |
i am planning to put down a new floor in my kitchen using laminate click panels. do i need to remove the old v ... |
| 22. |
i have just removed a vinyl flooring. They were backed with a tar like paper and attached with a tacky substan ... |
| 23. |
I have hardwood that was covered in lino tile for at least 30 yrs. Upon removing the tile, a black sticky glue ... |
| 24. |
what is the best way to remove parkay flooring ... |
| 25. |
Our cottage has a concrete floor(no basement)I am getting rid of carpeting. We have had 2 floods in 6 years.( ... |
| 26. |
Hi Pierre. I am purchasing a new home in the near future and would like to make the entire ground floor in har ... |
| 27. |
Mr Cantin
I bought a new house. It is a two-floor one. I am worrying about the material for the stairs. What ... |
| 28. |
Good morning Pierre,
My wife and I are planning a living room, dining room, and kitchen renovation to an o ... |
| 29. |
Hi Pierre,
I do not know too much about hardwood floors and I need your advice. I understand that they are ... |
| 30. |
we are trying to lay an ash floor (unfinished wood)in our cottage. it came from a private mill and has been st ... |
| 31. |
I have a 7 year hardwood floor & I like to make them shiny.
Please advise the procedure and products/tools ... |
| 32. |
Hi~ Pierre.
I'd like to get information of Good Material for Insulation. I am planning to move to a condo. ... |
| 33. |
Pierre. I am wanting to install 3/4" Birch select and better in a large area(900sq ft). I know I have K3 board ... |
| 34. |
Hi Pierre,
We have a 6 year old townhouse with carpeted stairs and now we want to reface the stairs with ha ... |
| 35. |
Hi Pierre,
I have an old house which slopes quite a bit to the front. The upper floor is carpeted. I would l ... |
| 36. |
Is it possible to use hardwood flooring in a cottage with a concrete crawlspace and no heat? If not do you hav ... |
| 37. |
We just installed (glue) cork tiles on a basement washroom floor. They are lifting near the shower.We had not ... |
| 38. |
What is the best way to intstall a transition board from cork to hardwood? The cork is floating and both surfa ... |
| 39. |
I am thinking of re doing my kitchen floor. Currently there are 2 layers of 12 X 12 peel and stick tile. About ... |
| 40. |
Hi Pierre,
My name is Kerry from Toronto and I am installing laminate floors. In my bedroom I have sliding ... |
| 41. |
LES: In your radio commericials, you mention that SELECT / SELECT & BETTER is the best wood flooring there is. ... |
| 42. |
Hello Mr. Pierre I am planning to install hardwood on plywood subfloor over a crawl space. I was told that if ... |
| 43. |
Hi Pierre: I am planning to install hardwood throughout my new house in Ottawa.
My wife likes large plank ... |
| 44. |
I am installing new hardwood, oak 3/4 inch with thick, grey paper underlay. House is 15 years old and the exi ... |
| 45. |
We purchased our house about 3 years ago and the previous owner had put carpet down. We ripped up the carpet ... |
| 46. |
Hi, We had some serious rain in Calgary and because of it I had to replace my deck, back door and part of the ... |
| 47. |
I would like to know if it is wise to add hardwood/laminate (with laminate being my first choice) in the basem ... |
| 48. |
Hi Pierre, I just took up the wall to wall carpet in our bedroom so we could have hardwood floors instead. W ... |
| 49. |
We removed carpeting from living/rm hall/wy &1bd.room,all look great except the bed/rm,can the floors be finis ... |
| 50. |
Hi Pierre:
We are planning to remove carpet from our living room/dining room and have solid walnut flooring i ... |
| 51. |
We are thinking of replacing the worn carpet covering our stairs with glued laminate flooring. At some point i ... |
| 52. |
We own a smaller townhome. There is a small entry that goes up four steps to our livingroom-dining room combo ... |
| 53. |
Hi Pierre,
We have a 6 year old townhouse with engineered 'I' joists at 19" o/c and 11/16" (I think) thick ... |
| 54. |
Looking for advice on procedure for woodwashing a floor.
I am planning on sanding floors in my house and am ... |
| 55. |
Hi there
We are in the proccess of installing 3/4" prefinished hardwood in our living room/hall/and front sta ... |
| 56. |
We just bought a house and the upstairs bedrooms, hallways and stairs are all parkay flooring. We are going to ... |
| 57. |
when carpeting was removed from
this old house,beautiful oak
wood floors were revealed but it also shows da ... |
| 58. |
what a nice way to join hardwood to tile?
Thanks ... |
| 59. |
I got my hardwood done with a brazilian wood and it is showing large gaps some areas have that i can easily fi ... |
| 60. |
I have pine floors in two rooms one a kitcen the other a rec room.. I need to sand them any idea what to put ... |
| 61. |
Can you refer me to an instruction book or a web site that explains the steps to take to install hardwood floo ... |
| 62. |
I have a older home and would like to install laminate flooring in one of the rooms. I have a metal grate abou ... |
| 63. |
Hi there,
I am a soon-to-be new home owner. I'd like to replace the carpet in my eating/dining area (250 ... |
| 64. |
Hi Pierre;
I was wondering whether teak is used for flooring in homes?? If it is, what is the approximate cos ... |
| 65. |
Hi Pierre, our house was built in 1950. The previous owners installed ceramic tile over the orginal Dade Count ... |
| 66. |
subfloor not nailed to joists. ... |
| 67. |
This winter a leaking pipe left water standing on a section of our relatively new maple kitchen floor for mayb ... |
| 68. |
I am getting conflicting advise on whether or not I can install 3/4" Hardwood on a 1/2" plywood subfloor. Most ... |
| 69. |
Any solution please ... |
| 70. |
there is no sub floor under my parkay can i just put the 3/4 plywood on top of the parkay and then install the ... |
| 71. |
How do you estimate lineal feet for 1x6 flooring or any size of flooring if you want it on a 45 degree angle ... |
| 72. |
Hi Mr Cantin,
I'm planning to hire a contractor to install wood flooring in my bedrooms, sitting ... |
| 73. |
Can a new hardwood floor be installed over an existing parquet floor or should the old floor be removed. I had ... |
| 74. |
Hi Pierre,
Just purchase a new home, we have the option of putting hardwood or ceramic in the kitchen area. ... |
| 75. |
Hello from Windsor! Does any one use or sell those old fashioned hardwood floor buffers anymore? We have a b ... |
| 76. |
we are putting hardwood throught out the4 kitchen and the dining area ad there is k3 under the lino and what w ... |
| 77. |
Hello Pierre,
Thank you for taking my question.
I am remodeling my basement living area floors with lami ... |
| 78. |
Our house has a hardwood floor in the kitchen. It's a red oak, with a very glossy finish - mirrorlke. From u ... |
| 79. |
Hi Pierre
Can you explain the correct installation sequence for solid wood flooring on a concrete floor surfa ... |
| 80. |
pulled carpet up and found pine parkay underneath.had problems finding replacements for a certain amount of da ... |
| 81. |
i'm trying to restore the old 1and 3 quarter hardwood flooring in this old house but in the 2 bedrooms i'm doi ... |
| 82. |
My home which is a recent purchase has parquet flooring and I would like to put down new laminate,can I put th ... |
| 83. |
The dew point has obviously been reached many times between our warm room and the cold slab. The moisture barr ... |
| 84. |
Hi!
MY daughter spilled nailpolish on our hardwood floors and I am wondering what is the best method to remov ... |
| 85. |
hi pierre
thinking of putting down dark walnut parkay flooring - everyone is saying it isn't as durable or as ... |
| 86. |
Hi Pierre,
We are renovating our 18 yr old home in Port Moody, BC. We are replacing our carpet on the stair ... |
| 87. |
Hi, I was given an estaimate on refinishing my oak floors which are about 60 years old. The gentleman recomm ... |
| 88. |
I have stairs with the tread in oak and the riser in cherry I think. they have been neglected for some time- T ... |
| 89. |
Hello:
I've recently purchased a home that has 3/8" hardwood strips on the main level of the house. It need ... |
| 90. |
Hello Mr Galko,
My husband and I would like to install a laminate floor in our basement. Our house is appr ... |
| 91. |
Hello Pierre, I just bought a house with existing parkay floors, im going to refinsish them myself, should i f ... |
| 92. |
Hi.
I would like to lay a new parky floor the floor in question is half wood and half concrete do i have to l ... |
| 93. |
Hi Pierre,
I am building a small log cabin using my own portable mill. I understand that floor joists must ... |
| 94. |
I have a cottage on piers. The floor is insulated with foam and fibreglass insulation. 5/8 subfloor. Only us ... |
| 95. |
We installed a parkay floor about 15 years ago. The floor had some type of wax prefinish on it (not varathane ... |
| 96. |
Hi Pierre:
I have a 34 years old dinning room oak parkay floor.A short wall by the dinning room was removed r ... |
| 97. |
Pierre: I have a 20 year old house with 5/8" Aspinite subfloor. Can I install 3/4" oak
flooring on top of it ... |
| 98. |
I am biulding a new home with a concrete slab. Is it possible to lay red oak flooring directly to the concrete ... |
| 99. |
Greetings,
I am looking at a resale home and the Oak floors would need to be refinished as they are badly m ... |
| 100. |
We own a nearly 100 year old home. It has tounge and groove subfloor, hardwood, then K5 screwed to it, underpa ... |
| 101. |
I am considering having oak flooring installed throughout my home, ie kitchen, living room,etc. I have been ad ... |
| 102. |
Hello
We have parkey floors in our kitchen, which have black water damage to 6 blocks from water leaking for ... |
| 103. |
Pierre, any concerns respecting the use of hardwood floors in a seasonal cottage in Northern Ontario (red lake ... |
| 104. |
I am considering hardwood flooring throughout the main floor of my home(kitchen, foyer, dining and living room ... |
| 105. |
I have pulled up the carpet off my hardwood plank floors and it has white stuff all over. It's a rough surfac ... |
| 106. |
This floor was installed in a condominium over a concrete floor.
The hardwood used was "kerfed" on the under ... |
| 107. |
Hi Pierre,
we have just bought a house and under the carpets it seems to have lovely parkay flooring how can ... |
| 108. |
We have 35 year old oak parquet flooring. There is an area that is rather darkened from traffic. Other than re ... |
| 109. |
Hi Pierre
The parquet floor under my wall-to-wall broadloom is "buckling" in places, we have noticed a few ... |
| 110. |
Hi Pierre: We recently moved into our new home. There are some dents, scratches, and chips in our hardwood f ... |
| 111. |
Hello Pierre,
I am about to refinish a hard wood floor. It had been covered with tar paper and floor tiles ... |
| 112. |
Dear Mr. Galko.
We are considering having oak flooring installed throughout the main floor of our home. We ... |
| 113. |
Dear Mr. Cantin,
Can you tell us whether or not it is advisable to install hardwood flooring at entrance wa ... |
| 114. |
We have parkay flooring and want to know the best way to clean them and maintain them
Thanks ... |
| 115. |
I am thinking about doing a bamobb floor in a home in Calgary. i have heard everything from it iis the best h ... |
| 116. |
We have pergo type floors in our clubhouse and they are stained from water that has leaked into the room. Is ... |
| 117. |
We are refinishing our red oak flooring and I thought they were water-based satin but the refinisher said they ... |
| 118. |
If I do stain my oak floors a med colour what would you suggest that is current for 2006? I have natural lamin ... |
| 119. |
Hi,
We recently bought a house with parkay floors throughout the living room and main hallway. At one point i ... |
| 120. |
I have just purchased an old house and I want to put down hardwood flooring however, the floor is very uneven. ... |
| 121. |
Les:
I would appreciate knowing how to remove old dry underpadding from parquet floor. I want to retain the ... |
| 122. |
is there any way to keep a pine floor looking its best? Shelley ... |
| 123. |
Will ceramic tile stick to parkay flooring or will the tile pop loose? ... |
| 124. |
I'm looking to hire some to refinish about 700 sq ft of oak hardwood flooring. What kinds of questions should ... |
| 125. |
Pierre
I have been looking on the internet regarding filling in gaps between hardwood floors. Our floors are ... |
| 126. |
If we are considering putting in hardwood flooring in our main area. What size hardwood should we use? 12 inch ... |
| 127. |
my husband recently installed
a hardwood floor for friends.
He used glue to install on the
advice of the fr ... |
| 128. |
Dear Expert,
We recently had prefinished hardwood floors installed. Contractor left little smudges of 'Bulld ... |
| 129. |
I want to know approximately how much it would cost to have hardwood installed .My livingroom/dining room is28 ... |
| 130. |
Our medium light oak floor has several gouge marks approx. 1/8" deep) caused by a fallen vase. I would like t ... |
| 131. |
I am thinking about installing 2 1/4 x 3/4 red oak unfinished hardwood floor in my family room. The reason I ... |
| 132. |
I have parquet floor in my kitchen. I haven't used chairs yet because I want to be sure to use something on m ... |
| 133. |
Hi Pierre I am wondering if you can recommend an easy and quick way to repair a scratch in a maple or oak hard ... |
| 134. |
Our main floor is a concrete slab with radiant (water) infloor heating. We want to remove the carpet & install ... |
| 135. |
We are currently in the process of getting our house ready to list for sale. One of the things we need to add ... |
| 136. |
What is the best way to run hardwood in a T shaped hallway.
There are two long hallways intersecting at 90 De ... |
| 137. |
Hello Pierre,
My husband's planning to install hardwood in our living room/dining room and he plans on putt ... |
| 138. |
We would like to know how to renovate an existing Oak Parkay Floor. The floor is currently waxed and we would ... |
| 139. |
HI, I have a laminate floor that is very good quality and has a marble look raised design on it. My problem i ... |
| 140. |
Period home with hardwood floors throughout and have been given nflicting info on installing radient heat from ... |
| 141. |
Hi Pierre, My cottage is on piers. It is heated year round but when we are not there we generally leave the he ... |
| 142. |
I am about to replace the carpeting in the living room of my 13 year old side-split bunalow.
Once the carpet ... |
| 143. |
I live in the U.K. My new flat has parkay flooring under the carpet in one bedroom, the others have ordinary f ... |
| 144. |
Hi, we are installing oak hw floors in our home but need to rip up the parkay floors first. It is not as easy ... |
| 145. |
Is there any way to confirm a red oak hardwood floor has been finished with 2 coats of Streetshoe polyurethane ... |
| 146. |
I own a triplex....built in 68, bungalow style.... my apt is over the other two. I have 2 layers of plywood s ... |
| 147. |
Can I put laminate flooring
right over peel and stick linoleum tiles? ... |
| 148. |
can I use javex on laminated floors? ... |
| 149. |
I've re-done my back porch, insulated and drywalled it.
Question: Can I put down laminate flooring in ther ... |
| 150. |
Hi Les,
I have been shopping for hardwood flooing and have spoke with many "experts". Only one company has ... |
| 151. |
I just installed new laminate flooring and I want to know if putting rubber backed rugs on it will cause it ha ... |
| 152. |
I WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE THE COLOUR OF MY PARKAY FROM LIGHT OAK TO A WALNUT THE FLOOR IS OLD AND FADED IN PLACES ... |
| 153. |
Dear Greg:I asked you a recent question about this but I gave you the wrong type of sub floor. The sub floor i ... |
| 154. |
I hope you can help. I have pine board tongue and groove floor with wide spaces between the boards and have t ... |
| 155. |
We just had an oak hardwood floor installed and existing hardwood refinshed. The wood was stained and then fi ... |
| 156. |
installing 3/4in flooring have 3/4in particle board now insrtucions say not to nail to particle board can i pu ... |
| 157. |
how much space do i leave on side 3/8 or 1/2 in. for expansion and contraction ... |
| 158. |
Please advise what are the different kind of wooden floor quality available and which one is best
What will b ... |
| 159. |
We have natural oak harwood flooring (polyurethane finish) installed throughout our home. Can you advise the t ... |
