If You Ever Felt Like, Totally Ripping The Floor Out, You Would Do This (updated March 5)

More, more, more. Here's what a kitchen floor looks like when it's ripped out and all you have left is boards seperating you from the dirt and mud of the earth.

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Ripped up linoleum looks like this.


This is the tile that was UNDER the linoleum that is OVER the stuff that seperates us from the dirt and animals.


Here's the ripped up floor portion. You basically take a sharp object made for scraping, jam it under there, and start prying. It's not a pretty sound because these were nailed in with many, many nails.


Stuart and Cher investigate the lack of linoleum.


Here's a closer look at that wood under the nice stuff that used to be here.


First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the tarpaper that covers up the floorboards...


Tarpaper a'plenty.


A few before and afters to show you the nitty gritty.