Ripping up a floor

[kaharrison9]

Morning All

Anybody dare to guess the time it would take to take up 90m2 of stone then take up 12/15mm of screwed down ply?

Best way for getting up the ply and the likely hood of it lifting the floorboards.

Thanks.

Kevin

 

[Alan.P]

1 man 2 days to lift a dispose of stone
1 man 1 day to lift and dispose of ply

easiest way would be to unscrew it, surely ?

 

[Andy Allen]

your a hard worker Alan....

take me a week to do that lot..lol

 

[kaharrison9]

I am thinking it would take a lot longer as there could be all the old adhesive bed and the screw heads will be hidden and filled with addy.
It is an insurance quote so I need to think of the worst scenario regarding costs.

 

[Gazzer]

You are right Kev, before you can unscrew the boards you need to get the tiles up and actually find the screws. Not knowing how it was screwed wont help either. If the fixer did a 200mm centre pattern then it should help but as you say, the screw heads will be covered in adhesive.
You could take the destructive approach and get under the ply and lever it up. I would estimate a good 3 days with a labourer.

 

[Brian the Tile]

how long is a piece of string? anybodys guess that,for me i would say four days minimum and then you just dont know what you are going to find underneath ,so i would be very carefull how you word your estimate (quote) to the insurance people or you might end up in the myre

 

[kaharrison9]

If I go down the route of lifting I do think it will have to be the destructive route but like Brian says there is no knowing of what else may crop up like floor boards lifting, joists need strengthening, etc (there are a couple of cracks through the floor from the previous floor) and over 90 m2 soon could soon start adding up unforeseen costs. I have some photos i'll put on shortly

 

[Brian the Tile]

yes photos would be good and also a bit more info about the job as that seem to be a lot of flooring to come up and i see big problems if you are not carefull

 

[kaharrison9]

Cheers Brian.
For some reason I have put the pics in a new thread called floor options I have started!!
As you say if not careful I can envisage bigger problems and unforeseen costs.
It is a large area not as if it is just a kitchen floor

 

[kilty55]

i would say 2 to 3 days max me and a labourer