We are going to renovate our kitchen, and currently, there is a tile floor with underfloor heating (electric), and the floor is about 2 cm higher compared to the other floors. The plan is to remove this floor and lay parquet, but the question is how to proceed to avoid damage.
The house is from the 70s and consists of wooden joists and a wooden frame with a brick facade. This means that the house moves more easily and tends to crack, so the less impact, the better.
So how do you proceed to do this as gently as possible? And will it be necessary to pour something new evenly afterward, or can it be done well enough to just lay the parquet directly?
Now we did tear out everything (we were going to adjust the floor/floor joists).. but those who were working on it.. used a crowbar for the tiles and the "float" that was underneath (make sure the underfloor heating is completely disconnected ). It wasn't until they got below that... that they started using saws etc.
As I said, for us it wasn't important to make minimal impact.. since everything was going out.. but it surprisingly went smoothly for them to remove "large pieces" and put them on the wheelbarrow.. your question might rather be how it looks underneath? what they've done under the tiles.. chipboard? plasterboard? lots of float? wooden floor? plastic? a chipboard/plasterboard.. can take some knocks if you hack with a crowbar..
All of our houses have been quite "movable" and I haven't noticed that it seems to matter particularly during "renovation".. rather you have to choose materials etc according to the house's conditions.. afterwards
Before we moved here, we had a 70s house with a basement.. and we renovated that house.. chose vinyl flooring precisely because it moved so much and we didn't want problems with cracked tiles etc in potential tiles... we also adjusted the entire living/dining room.. because it moved quite a bit.. so we wanted to put in some noggins and get everything at the same height.. (ideally this should have been done in all rooms, but it's not as noticeable in the bedrooms.. that the floors aren't 100% level)
Aha, so you start by carefully breaking up the floor? It looks like they laid the floor after the kitchen cabinets were installed. That is, the tiles end at the base cabinets, which should mean that if we first remove the base cabinets, we'll have a better start to breaking up the floor. We'll definitely make sure the power is disconnected for the underfloor heating first; an electrician will be on site from the first day.
The hope is that we can break up the floor without needing to bring in sanding machines or similar, but there's a good chance it's stuck on very tightly!
We actually have no cracks in any of the tiled floors, not even in the fully tiled bathroom. But you can see on the outside of the house that there are small cracks in the foundation and facade (siporex stone).
When we had new windows installed in the living room, I remember the workers had to hammer a bit, which resulted in being able to see that the drywall on the inside had shifted. You have to look for it, but it's there, and unfortunately, it's something you have to expect when using wood.
The ceilings are from the 70s, so it’s not a bad idea to replace them. You can see they have cracks between the panels, but whether it's been like that from the start or if it's due to movement, I don't know.
Let's hope we can break up the floor carefully and that it releases easily from the wood.
They started like that with us at least.. It was the same principle here with them stopping at the kitchen counter (i.e., laid the floor afterwards). In some places, they had plastic underneath where there were large gaps (or missing wood..) in the wooden floor underneath.. (the filler probably ran through?).. it seemed to come off very easily though when they broke it (such a messy job, lots of dust and debris.. they put it in buckets and carried it out)
Here are two pictures of when they started removing our tile floor.. (as mentioned, wooden floor underneath).. so for us (who needed to go down further), they brought in other machines (reciprocating saw) only after the whole wooden floor was exposed.. so it was done in stages..
Be glad that you don't have cracks inside... in our floors we've lost grout completely in some places and you can see that they've (previously) filled in several times where you walk a lot.
So they probably did a good job (underwork) when they did your tiles! As we said, we didn't dare to take that chance when we renovated our 70s house last time (the bathroom) became vinyl flooring... since all the floors creaked... the parquet had slid apart in some places, and there was at least one crack or bulge in every bedroom (wall). The same applied to all the other houses on the street too hehe... and some had tiles there in the bathrooms.
You simply have to feel a bit for how you want it and what the house's conditions are...
Thanks for the pictures, I'm actually a bit afraid of tearing up the floor, you never know how hard it will be to remove the fix. If you're unlucky, they did a really good job, and it has to be chiseled up, which isn't fun when it's a wooden floor. Our idea is not to replace the subfloor but to lay parquet on it. However, there is a big risk that we will have to self-level the floor after we've taken it up.
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). It wasn't until they got below that... that they started using saws etc.
