How To Pull Up Wood Floors. Position the Trim Puller where you scored the line then use a hammer to gently tap the tool down behind the baseboard. If it is hard to insert a pry bar under the tongue to begin removing the old hardwood floor you should use a circular saw equipped with a carbide blade to plunge-cut between two boards near the tongue side of the wall.
Flooring scrapers after the hardwood is removed would be the next step. Wedge the tip of the pry bar underneath a section of flooring. So using a Circular Saw ours was a worm driveand it gave it some ooommph cut lines into your hardwood perpendicular to the direction the wood is laying.
If you have access to an edge of your floor from another room you can immediately start pulling up your pieces of wood with your pry bar.
Use a pry bar to pull up the boards. How to Pull Up Old Wood Floors for Salvaging. How To Remove Hardwood Flooring the Easy Way. I used three on this job.
