Plywood! Or at least that's the next level. ML was a "tile removal animal"! With a cold chisel in one hand and a big hammer in the other, she had row after row popped up and hauled out to the driveway.
But under the plywood? Not so fast! Ring shanked nails were spaced every 8 inches or so in half inch plywood. Sometimes I was chipping out 8 inch chunks of plywood. It went OK until the last third, when the nail spacing went to 6".
But look what is underneath - just what we thought! Not really! This photo is the edge of a sheet of plywood to give you scale. In front of it is what is left of old linoleum when you strip it up. A paper like layer mixed with glue is left. You can also see a different kind of nail in the middle right of the picture. All that is stuck to some real nice oak hardwood flooring - which is what we wanted.
You can see the plywood being ripped out the best way possible. But, eventually, we had a floor without plywood and tile.
Watch out for nails. They blend in with the black and are miserable on bare feet.
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