Innovative wives!

[Woodchips2]

We recently moved the kitchen in our bungalow to a new room and I've been taking up the old kitchen floor. The previous owner had laid laminate over the old vinyl tiles. The problem was the vinyl tiles had been glued to hardboard which had been nailed to the softwood flloor but also glued on all the edges. It's been a pig to remove and I've been lifting the vinyl tiles with a chisel and then taking out the nails from the hardboard before removing the hardboard in small chunks.

I'd got about halfway through the job and was thoroughly fed up when my wife came in today and asked would a garden spade be quicker? Got the spade and half an hour later the rest of the floor was up (hammer) . It's got so much leverage that it lifts vinyl tiles, hardboard, glue and nails in one go. One happy bunny :lol:

Regards Keith

 

[Alexam]

Smart cookies these wives. Never know what's stored away. Well done 'wifey'.

Alex

 

[blackrodd]

Clever these Ladies, a spade is also useful for ripping plaster off and blown screeds.
Just as long as I'm not expected to DIG with one! Rodders

 

[paultnl]

If you watch any of the American renovation shows, they are the favoured tool for striping roofs.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

and upstairs lath and plaster (downwards from the roof)

 

[DrPhill]

Yes, very clever. May be such lateral thinking comes from weaker 'categories' for tools. A spade is not a 'garden tool' but a 'long tool with a flat blade'. Weaker categories make it easier to to 'repurpose' tools. My wife recently suggested that she could do a job with a 'hammer and screwdriver'. She was right if you count a chisel as a screwdriver, and since you can undo a screw with a chisel.......