How to remove tar paper from wood floors.
How to remove tar paper from wood floors.
After removing as much of the tar paper or felt as you can with a scraper sand the rest off using a drum type floor sander available at tool rental stores starting with coarse 40 grit sandpaper.
You can use the putty knife to scrape the tar paper off sections should come free by hand but there will be areas where you will have to scrape with the knife to cut the paper away from the surface.
One corner of the kitchen didn t get soaked through though and trying to.
Once all the residue has been removed go over the floor several more times with successively finer grits of sandpaper 80 grit 100 grit and 120 grit to further smooth the floors and.
What took more time than scraping up the mess was pulling up the staples in the floor as we went along.
Many homeowners find that they have beautiful wood floors hidden beneath this tar paper.
For the most part we were able to scrape up the mess with putty knives.
If you ever remodel the floor and want to expose the first layer in the future you will need to remove the layer of tar paper off the surface.