Floor Demo Bar

Handy bar is the perfect tool for construction and renovation.

Floor demo bar.

The crow bar was originally invented to fix wagon wheels and the first documented use was in france. The handy bar is forged half round for added strength and less weight. This is a great time to get all that pent up aggression out. Next position the pry bar as shown and give it a good whack with the sledgehammer to drive it under the floorboard.

Use a pry bar to pull up the boards. I have demo bars and such but to short and i forsee backbrakeing work trying to use something like that. The gutster demo bar is the result of a contractor who had been in the business for 30 years working with his hands every day. This 60 demo bar is ideal for flooring deck boards and other similar projects.

Pull back sharply on the handle to wrench the board from its place. Pry up the flooring board by board and continue this until all of the flooring is. Forged half round handy bar estwing s 15 in. It has a wide thin blade for easy prying.

The gutster series iii eliminates the need to switch from the pry bars hammers and scrapers to get the job done. Demolition fork wrecking bar get ready to be wowed by the amount of demo get ready to be wowed by the amount of demo and wrecking work you ll accomplish with the new honey badger demo forks. This demo tool is weighted to provide excellent momentum for hardwood flooring projects. After hours of blood sweat and maybe a tear and making little progress it dawned on me that the best demo bar out there was sitting in my garage.

The first of their kind these demolition forks were designed by contractors with speed and versatility as the top priority. Using gutster tear out bars to rip out existing hardwood flooring was going against the nail instead of with them in video makes it seem harder that it is. Weight 10 7 lbs length 60 inches. Wedge the tip of the pry bar underneath a section of flooring.

What would you guys suggest would be the best tool to tear this stuff up. There are endless uses for estwing s handy bar. Demo is so fun. Handy bar is the perfect estwing s 15 in.

Then push or pull the pry bar leveraging against the subfloor. Assuming you ve sawed the boards into small enough sections they should pop right out. Ive installed alot of wood flooring but this week will be the first time i will be removing an existing nail down wood floor. Repeat this process until all the flooring has been removed.

It dawned on me that the best tool for the task was my trusted 42 dewalt demo bar and began ripping up the top engineered layer which was glued down to plywood. While demolition was often just a small segment of a job it could often be the most time consuming and back breaking.