I've certainly got my work cut out for me this week because this parquet flooring has
all been torn up the floorboards have been lifted insulation has been put in underneath
and all the pipe work and electrics have been looked at underneath the floor as well before
tiling will commence that radiator is going to be replaced with all the pipe work chased
into the wall and some of the electrics also going to be moved stay tuned to see how it
all goes
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floor but what I'm going to do is use an SDS chisel it's got a horrible black bitumen style
glue holding it down so I'm fully expecting to have to replace the floorboards but because
I'm lifting them anyway so that's not too much of an issue and it's all been adjusted
for in the costing so let's get suited and booted and crack on with it
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thank you [Music]
[Music] okay let's see how much mess I can make [Music]
[Applause] actually covered off a lot easier than I expected [Music]
but to see what I said this is gonna be easy
so as you can see all of the Parco floor has been removed leaving this lovely black sticky
bitumen all over the floor now it's going to take me for ages trying to scrape that
off so I'm not really going to bother them so the next task is for me to try and find
the nails now obviously with that bitumen the way it's not going to be so easy but what
I do have there's a magnet what advantage I have here is that this board has already
been lifted as you can see where it's all been torn around the edge now this is because
I've already done the kitchen underneath the vinyl which is also going to be replaced it's
just down there's a temporary measure so just take my magnet and I can follow along the
lines
and there we go one now directly there taking a scraper remove the magnet out the way I'm
gonna just try and get some of that bitumen out the way just so I can actually find natural
nail itself there we go got the edge of it there don't go too mad with it take the punch
over over the head of the nail [Music]
not moving the camera too much whilst I'm doing that as you can
see on there I've started to make a bit of an indent around the outside of the nail you
do have to be careful with these because obviously if I get it in the wrong place I'll actually
knock the nail further into the hole which is not what I want to do [Music]
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foreign [Music] very soft nails this is going to be fun
here we go the first of what is going to be several hundred nails that I've removed
demonstrate again there we go another another nail straight underneath that you see I can't
see that at all because of the bitumen in the way
in fact scraping a completely the wrong place there we go
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[Music] now you might think that there's crowbar looks nice and shiny and new well that's because
it is because I lost the other one so I've had to go out and buy another one but they
are worth their weight in gold for this type of thing don't think the camera picks us up
particularly well but we have one removed nail there and we've got another one over
there and so on and so forth throughout the sheet now I did have one very stubborn one
right down here so you can see the nail is still in there because the head just didn't
want to come out it just folded away to nothing but because that's now a point I have no head
left on it I'm hoping that when I chop the board it'll just lift off and I can cut the
nail out from underneath from experience I know that these floorboards are tongue and
groove which was going to make it a lot more difficult to get out now there's various different
ways you can do this you can use a normal pad saw you can use a multi-saw blade but
what I'm gonna do because I've done it before and I found it the easiest and quickest way
it's these tracksuits there was a little bit of a fit we just said then I'm actually going
to use my tracks or rail as a guide to get straight lines following the boards assuming
I can actually find the right places to follow them along but I'm going to use my battery
powered circular saw now the reason being the blade is really half dead on this machine
and I've got a couple of spares kicking around anyway so I'm going to place them afterwards
the bitumen I expect is going to cause creation is going to probably null at the blade so
I don't want to really want to use or ruin a new blade for doing this I'll set the gauge
to 25 mil and you can just about to see the mark down on there the reason being that these
floorboards are about 20 ml real thick and I've got to take account of the thickness
of the rail guide but it also means I can make sure that I actually cut through the
Timber and one swoop so I haven't got to go back and and do another cut with it and I
don't want to go too deep into it because there could be cabling or pipe work because
I'm pretty close to the underside
here is a pure example why I'm going to have to use the multi-tool the track is too wide
between the edge of the wall and where the cut is there so on this board I'm just gonna
have to finish off along here using the multi-tool right then let's get this board up
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