Vinyl Floor Underlayment Removal. Cover the floor with dry ice to remove vinyl tile. Sometimes a project like removing several layers of kitchen flooring can seem so challenging and overwhelming. (see below for tools.)subscribe to this old house:
Protect your hands from the saw with leather gloves. Examine the underlayment for screws. I've disliked my vinyl kitchen floor for many, many years.
Gallery of Vinyl Floor Underlayment Removal
Underneath that is a sticky paper, felt or synthetic layer called an underlayment. Before starting to remove the underlayment, remove all furniture from the room. To remove the strip of sheet vinyl flooring from the remaining underlayment under the recessed toe plate, take hold of an exposed edge and slowly lift the vinyl flooring, wetting the asbestos backing as it is exposed. It isn't very obvious in the photo, but the underlayment looks to be laid in strips.