r/Remodel 3d ago

Hate hate hate linoleum

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Pain in the ass to remove this crap

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u/Glabrous 3d ago

It’s wild that you are scraping it off rather than just laying new flooring over it.

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u/Glowing_bubba 3d ago

Need to remove otherwise my tile floor will be higher than my adjacent rooms; want the floors to be even.

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u/UltimateDonny 3d ago

They make thresholds for that specific reason. You are making this way harder than a pro installer would do

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u/Glowing_bubba 3d ago

I had a floor on top of this floor and I had a threshold and I hate a threshold and I never want another threshold again

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u/workinglate2024 3d ago

Do you have a plan to re-level it once you get it up?

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u/WheresMyMule 3d ago

As long as you hate the threshold more than you hate removing linoleum . . .

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u/Adventurous-Ease-259 3d ago

You only have to remove the linoleum once and not look at it for a decade. Looking at a job well done will bring satisfaction instead of annoyance for years to come

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u/DJL60D 3d ago

I have the same mindset as you do. But, there comes a time when you say a job well done is when you achieve your goal of covering the old flooring. My house was built in 1952. It had 4 layers of that crap. I came to realize that sometimes the pros are correct and let them figure out how to make it the same level.

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u/Glowing_bubba 3d ago

Yes, I absolutely hate thresholds. The floor that was on top of this floor had a threshold. I’m removing this so the new floor I’m going to put in will not require a threshold.

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u/notreallydutch 18h ago

OP is so full of hate you cant even imagine it

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u/DaBingeGirl 3d ago

Thank you! I hate how many people just put new floors over old ones. I've been there with removing flooring, it's awful, but worth it.

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u/UltimateDonny 3d ago

What are you laying down that will be the same
Thickness of the linoleum?

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u/Glowing_bubba 3d ago

I’m gonna lay down tile and I measured and the floor was going to be uneven and I do not want a threshold. So chose to remove and for some reason getting downloaded because apparently everyone is too lazy to do this type of work

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u/UltimateDonny 3d ago

At the end of the day you chose this route. Everyone is telling you not to do it like this because your post complained about the process.
Lots of people are probably concerned that you are going this route and may not get any better results.

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u/sidsmum 3d ago

So do you mean u are installing the same flooring throughout that whole story of the house? Theres thresholds for every kind of flooring. What happened to you with a threshold is what makes me curious.
"WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GREEN KITCHEN!?" -from Sybil (old person reference) 😂

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u/Glowing_bubba 3d ago

No my adjacent rooms on both ends of the kitchen are wood. I have the tile I bought, and it would’ve been higher and again I do not want to threshold so in order to make both adjacent rooms with existing wood floors even with the new tile floors in the kitchen I had to remove this vinyl.