Hello,
I will be replacing the floor in a kitchen and I need to removethe subfloor . It is 3/4″ particle board and it was installed before the cabinets were set. How do I get a saw cut under the toe kick without removing the cabinets?
The chiseler
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Try using a toekick saw. Rental yards have them, or you can buy one here...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000224Q9/qid=1122601379/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8__i1_xgl60/102-8489676-1574511?v=glance&s=hi&n=1000
I asked the same question not too long ago and was told pretty much the same answer--toe kick saw and was warned to be careful using one as its blade is a ways from the motor so it tends to twist the whole thing in your hands and be dangerous. I chickened out and just chiselled. So happens there was a seam about a foot away running parallel to the kick, so one I sort of scored the particle boards, I lifted up at that seam and the board snapped and pulled away from under the toe kick. (Someone else had suggested cutting a joint a foot or two away and begin prying it up there.) Was surprisingly easy once I had done the chiselling. (Doing the chiselling was a pain though! But you don't have to be real careful--just sort of making a score line worked well enough that the board broke along that line when I pried.) I suppose if you have like 40 feet of this to do it'd be different--I only had about ten.
depending on the clearance height and the length of the run, a fein multimaster might do the trick.
If the counter top allows ( not stone or built in place solid surface or tile) I would consider removing the cabs.
But that's just me.
Eric
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I concur. Pull the cab. It's a base cabinet so it might not even be screwed to anything. Detatch the plumbing, get a helper, and pick the thing up and walk out with it....
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