At 02:02 PM 11/3/2015, you wrote:
>Now I'm moving to the bathroom, which isn't over a slab--it's hung off the
>side of the building over a crawlspace. Which means a wood subfloor.
>The scraper is too sharp. The vinyl tile is at least two layers deep (they
>just tiled over the old tile) and it flexes. So running the scraper over
>it, it either bites into the tile and binds up (it can't bear against the
>rigid concrete subfloor), or it bites into the wood floor itself.
I just pulled the vinyl tiles on my bathroom floor. I tried using a
heavy duty scrapper like you are talking about to no avail. I ended
up using a "multi tool" from
Harbor freight:
http://www.harborfreight.com/oscillating-multifunction-power-tool-62279.html
using a blade like this:
http://www.harborfreight.com/2-in-high-carbon-steel-multi-tool-rigid-scraper-blade-61828.html
Made short work of the job.
John
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