Daddy decided that we would have someone to put the new floor in (we're getting tile), but that we would be the ones to pull up the old floor. So that is what we -- I should say "some of us," since I actually haven't done any -- have been doing. He bought a floor scraping tool at Home Depot, and has used it quite extensively. The others like to take smaller painting spatulas and scrape away with those.
I guess at first that everyone used the big tool. The problem was that most people were only strong enough to get up the linoleum... and not the white papery stuff underneath. That is what Daddy (and others) are having to go back and do now.
Here it was at the very beginning, just starting out with baseboards and large swatches of linoleum.
Obviously Daddy had to move all the appliances, to be able to get at the linoleum underneath them. He plugged the refrigerator in to the back of the island, so it would stay cold while we worked, which was a blessing. The downside was that we discovered how very much in the way it was. :-)
Here's the spot where the refrigerator belongs. Juli put some concerted effort into that area one afternoon, so that we could move the fridge back as soon as possible.
The two methods we've been using to get up the white stuff. Daddy is trying to get it all the way down to the concrete.
It's amazing how those little paper bits of white stuff get tracked all over the house! Poor Debra vacuumed the dining room yesterday afternoon, and before she was even done putting all the furniture back in order there were already white flecks on the floor that she had just cleaned. And of course they manage to find their way up the stairs, into the tile room, and beyond... Just another week or so, and we should be back to normal cleanliness!
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