Removing tile isn’t an easy project. It’s very labor intensive,  and it creates a big mess, but it’s also expensive to pay someone else to do.  We get calls almost weekly from people that started the removal themselves and stopped to call us.

Here are the main reasons:

#1 reason: The family is coughing and can’t stand the dust in their home any longer.

#2 reason: The floor is just not coming up easily enough, and after one to two weeks they are giving up.

#3 reason: They got all the tile up but could not get the thin-set.

You don’t save much when you hire someone to get only the thin-set up after the tile is gone.   The thin-set is much harder to get up most times than the tile, and it is priced accordingly.

We recommend keeping you and your family safe and healthy from the beginning, and have our dustless specialists take care of this for you.  We can do most jobs in one day and we leave your home as clean as we found it.

How do I remove glued-down hardwood?

Tearing up hardwood floors that have been glued directly to concrete will be an extremely messy and is very labor intensive.   The glue is sometimes seemingly impossible to get off.  This is why glued down wood is more expensive to remove than tile.  If the floor was a do it yourself  kind of installation, it may be the easier to remove, due to not enough or wrong adhesives used. You should be able to expect to pull up about 10 square foot per hour.  But what if it was installed by professionals?  Expect a glue removal nightmare!

Our recommendation is to keep you and your family safe and healthy by having our dustless specialists take care of this for you.  We can do most jobs in one day and we leave your home as clean as we found it.  This includes complete removal of wood and glue with a smooth, clean concrete slab ready for re-installation of your new floor.

How to remove decorative concrete stain, coating and paint from concrete?

Ask anyone who has ever stripped a sealer or coating from a concrete surface  with a chemical stripper what they thought of the process, and the general reaction will be it was complete misery.  The process of removing old or worn sealers and coatings from concrete ranks among one of the most miserable jobs even a professional may have to undertake.

There are two methods for removing sealers from concrete:

• Chemical, using a chemical stripper to remove the the coating
• Mechanical, which consists of grinding, blasting or sanding the coating off the surface

While both work, the mechanical method creates noise and dust, which can be difficult to deal with. This is why the most common method for removing sealers, paints or coatings from concrete is to use a chemical stripper.

Using our dustless equipment, we can grind the floor without the dust to keep you and your family safe and healthy. Our machines are still noisy, but we can do most jobs in one day and we leave your home as clean as we found it.  We leave you with a smooth, clean concrete slab ready for installation of your new flooring.

How to remove vinyl flooring, old linoleum or glue?

Removing an old linoleum or vinyl floor can sometimes be fairly easy, but what’s under it?  Glue! Noooooo!  Now you’re faced with gobs of old glue or adhesive that seem  almost impossible to get up.

Again, our recommendation is to keep you and your family safe and healthy and have our dustless specialists take care of this for you.  We can do most jobs in one day and we leave your home as clean as we found it.

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