http://stevish.com/archives/160 From a mind that only One can understand Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://stevish.com/archives/160#comment-2839 Stevish » Blog Archive » Excorcism of a Subfloor Wed, 03 May 2006 04:03:25 +0000 http://stevish.com/?p=160#comment-2839 [...] As you can imagine, we tried several methods (scrapers, pry bars, chisels, claw hammers), and nothing seemed to work. We finally found a method that worked pretty well. We cut the whole floor into 3-4 inch squares with a skill saw. Sounds more than a little bit excessive, no? Then we were able to use a tapping block and a sledge hammer to hit the squares from their sides and knock them loose. Not all of them came out clean, but most did. The remainder was still hell to get out. So we brought back the fish. It worked pretty well, but it still wasn’t perfect. All in all it took us 35 man hours to remove some underlayment. Dumb. [...] [...] As you can imagine, we tried several methods (scrapers, pry bars, chisels, claw hammers), and nothing seemed to work. We finally found a method that worked pretty well. We cut the whole floor into 3-4 inch squares with a skill saw. Sounds more than a little bit excessive, no? Then we were able to use a tapping block and a sledge hammer to hit the squares from their sides and knock them loose. Not all of them came out clean, but most did. The remainder was still hell to get out. So we brought back the fish. It worked pretty well, but it still wasn’t perfect. All in all it took us 35 man hours to remove some underlayment. Dumb. [...]

]]> http://stevish.com/archives/160#comment-1862 John Ambrose Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:20:50 +0000 http://stevish.com/?p=160#comment-1862 rofl The fish is AWESOME!! ROFL rofl The fish is AWESOME!! ROFL

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