To determine whether the tile is set in a bed of mortar or is glued down pull up the grate from a floor register and look around the rim below the floor level.
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Be careful you aren t getting it too hot though.
Fold back about 3 ft.
Try using a blow dryer to heat up a corner and start working.
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If there is no floor register you might have to pull up the threshold of an exterior door to see what s under the tile.
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Carpet is much easier to cut from the back than from the front.
Once you get a tile started the rest come up easy.
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If this doesn t get most of the mortar up it s probably going to be easier to replace the underlayment.
Use a sharp new blade in your utility knife and be careful not to slice into baseboard or walls.
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Keep pulling back the carpet and slicing it into strips.
If this doesn t work you can also try a heat gun and start prying it up.
Rip up both carpet and coal at the same time if the foam isn t glued down.
Set the depth of a circular saw blade to about 1 8 inch more than the thickness of the flooring.
Also if it is glued to the foam underneath you ll want to do very small sections.
Hammer on a 2 to 3 foot square section of the floor to smash up the remaining mortar and then use the floor scraper to scrape the broken pieces of mortar off the underlayment.
Removing adhesive from the underlayment can be a challenge.