Removing glued parquet from plywood

Floorologist · **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 12:44 pm

I completely agree Kevin. Properly glued, like you said, is the key. If properly glued...I see it as an additional laminated layer. I would sure take pains to make sure it has close to 100% contact,( on fingerblock...it would be easy to have loose fillets here and there). But if the parquet was installed with the right adhesive, trowell tooth size, and rolled...it should be part of,and additional to the subfloor.

A while back Dennis answered a post on the same subject,(cant find it), but he insisted under ANY conditions the parquet needs to be removed, due to fillets splitting, and making noise under the new hardwood. Hey Dennis! If your out there chime in...I still think that's upselling the job..if it's glued down tight :wink:

floormeintucson · **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 3:56 pm

KevinD wrote:

Just curious as to why nailing thru a 1/4 piece of oak a bad idea? I'm taking glued to plywood like this one? I'm not a fan of covering up someone else's mess but this is the one exception. A properly glued thin floor to plywood makes it one homogenous piece of plywood at that point.

Kevin, here's what I think. As Howard says and lots of "if's" there, if this and that were done correctly. Why risk it?

Floorologist wrote:

But if the parquet was installed with the right adhesive, trowell tooth size, and rolled...it should be part of,and additional to the subfloor.

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jessrj · **Joined:** Fri May 04, 2012 9:00 am **Posts:** 7

floormeintucson wrote:

Who ever installed a gluedown of the subfloor without underlayment on top should be tared and feathered.

I'd keep taking it up and put down a 1/2 inch plywood underlayment. You could go thinner than 1/2 inch if your going to have height issues.

Yep, what he said. Stupid original idea in the first place but you can solve the problem by adding the underlayment.

Floorguy · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 2:54 pm

KevinD wrote:

Just curious as to why nailing thru a 1/4 piece of oak a bad idea? I'm taking glued to plywood like this one? I'm not a fan of covering up someone else's mess but this is the one exception. A properly glued thin floor to plywood makes it one homogenous piece of plywood at that point.

I'm totally with you there.

The small amount of shrink and swell is not going to be in one direction, as when going over an existing strip floor.

If there enough swelling to buckle the parquet, it is enough to also buckle the strip flooring, if the parquet is, or isn't under it.

Removing glued parquet from plywood

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