vinyl floor removal Archives - Austin Dustless Tile Removal https://austindustless.com/tag/vinyl-floor-removal/ Health Matters Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:25:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 144923321 How to Remove Linoleum Flooring in Austin – The Fast, Clean & Dustless Way https://austindustless.com/how-to-remove-linoleum-flooring-in-austin-2/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:09:11 +0000 https://austindustless.com/?p=16182 How to Remove Linoleum Flooring in Austin – The Fast, Clean & Dustless Way How to Remove Linoleum Flooring the Professional Way When homeowners search for how to remove linoleum flooring, they quickly realize it’s not as simple as pulling up a corner and yanking. Linoleum and vinyl removal can be fairly easy sometimes but ... Read more

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How to Remove Linoleum Flooring in Austin – The Fast, Clean & Dustless Way


How to Remove Linoleum Flooring the Professional Way

When homeowners search for how to remove linoleum flooring, they quickly realize it’s not as simple as pulling up a corner and yanking. Linoleum and vinyl removal can be fairly easy sometimes but most of the time its surprisingly hard! It is messy, time-consuming, and physically demanding, especially when dealing with stubborn adhesives. That’s where Austin Dustless comes in.

We specialize in flooring removal that’s fast, dust-free, and ready for new installation the same day in most cases. Whether it’s linoleum, vinyl, tile, or wood, our professional equipment and expert team remove flooring without leaving your home coated in dust.


Why Linoleum Removal Can Be Tricky

linoleum isn’t just about getting up the sheet, the challenge is in the glue. Over time, adhesive bonds tightly to concrete or subflooring, making it difficult to remove without the right tools. 


Our Dustless Linoleum Removal Process

At Austin Dustless, we:

  1. Use hammer drills set up for vacuums and grinders with blades designed not to gum up on adhesive.

  2. Grind away glue while naturally removing high spots, leaving the floor for smoother installation.

  3. Collect over 99.95% of dust at the source with OSHA-certified HEPA filters and vacuums designed for concrete dust.

  4. Leave your home cleaner, healthier, and ready for your next flooring project.

This is the same process we use for:

  • How to remove a tile floor

  • How to remove tile from cement floor

  • How to remove floor tiles

  • How to remove wood flooring


DIY vs. Hiring a Pro – Cost & Value

Tolls needed: Hammer drill, scraper blades, 5″ or 7″ grinder, Dimond blades for the grinder, HEPA filter air scrubber, vacuum (NOT A WET DRY VACUUM) you need something stronger!

Keep in mind the grinder will fill a room with a thick cloud of dust in a matter of seconds.

 DIYAustin Dustless
Tools & Equipment$1,166.00 –  rental (plus blades)Included
Time2-4 days for 500 sq. ft.1 day for 1,000+ sq. ft.
Dust Cleanup4–8 hrs (plus air filter changes)None – dustless system
Floor PrepWill require extra levelingFloor may not need any leveling

Average Cost: Linoleum removal runs $1.75–$2.75 per sq. ft., with a minimum of $800 in-town.


Why Choose Austin Dustless?

  • Faster Installs – Our method leaves your floor flatter reducing the time and cost for prep to level the floor.

  • Cleaner Air – Protect your family and pets from harmful silica dust.

  • Lower Total Cost – No need to hire a cleaner or rent equipment.

  • Hundreds of 5-Star Reviews – 100% real, from happy customers.


Serving Austin & Surrounding Areas

We proudly serve homeowners, contractors, designers, and real estate agents across Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander, Buda, Lakeway and more.


Book Your Dustless Linoleum Removal Today

Stop struggling with stubborn flooring. If you’ve been wondering how to remove linoleum flooring without the mess, the answer is simple let Austin Dustless do it for you.

📞 Call 512-774-0933 or 📧 info@austindustless.com to get your free quote today.

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Best Way To Remove Old Floors https://austindustless.com/best-way-to-remove-old-floors/ https://austindustless.com/best-way-to-remove-old-floors/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:18:33 +0000 http://austindustless.com/?p=9574 How to remove old tile flooring? 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 ... Read more

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How to remove old tile flooring?

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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