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In preparation for the Linoleum... |
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We removed the hideous carpet & the front Gaucho...
...then we really got to work!
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At this point I was very thankful we didn't buy a bigger trailer! |
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The
tile was "potato-chipped" & curling up at the seams from
being under the carpet all these years. It looked like it would come up
pretty easily...
Boy...was I wrong! Only about 4 tiles came up in one piece the rest was bits & pieces...and was I sore the next day!!! |
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After all the big chunks were removed, there was
still the sticky felt (black) part of the tile & super hard brittle
mastic (pink-grey) still stuck to the plywood. The top of
this photo shows where I heated the felt backing with the old
blow-dryer and scraped up the backing. The bottom shows the stuck
felt before scraping. It took about 12 hours to scrape the whole floor! But, the asbestos was gone after this point.
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Next, we donned masks, rented a belt sander and got the rest of the mastic off and smoothed out the plywood. We weren't planning on sanding the floor when we started, but what a difference it made! The plywood was as smooth as new...we did have a few small divets to fill from my chiselling, but nothing major. The floor is good & solid...no spongy or rotted spots anywhere. We weren't planning on taking out the side gaucho either, but we decided that it would be an easier linoleum installation if we did, but we definately didn't want to mess with the water tank so we left it as is, including the tile in the "basement" under the gaucho.
We would have saved alot of time if we had done this earlier...probably would have used more sanding belts, but it would have gone a lot faster than scraping! I've since heard that Jasco makes an adhesive remover that works good with softening the black felt...if I had it to do over, I would give it a try! Maybe cut the scraping down some, not eliminate it totally but at least make it easier.
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Ta-Da!!!
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We LOVE it!!! |
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Looks great...Thanks Gerry!
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