How to remove the plinth?

If you need to dismantle the old skirting, then it's time to update the interior. Of course, dismantling skirting on the floor and( or) the ceiling can not be called too time-consuming work, but there are certain nuances. After reading this article, you will learn how to remove a plinth made of different materials, and what tools will be needed for this.

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What tools will be required?

It all depends on the material of the workmanship. For the manufacture of plinths, materials such as wood, PVC, gypsum, polystyrene can be used. The plinth can be with or without corners, with decorative elements or without plinths.

To independently dismantle a glued or hammered profile, you will need:

• Kiyanka. Screwdriver with flattened end or chisel.
• Slim trowel or scraper.
• Wooden wedges.
• Gvozdoder.
• Stationery or shoe knife.
• Hammer.

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Plastic

Dismantling the plastic skirting boards does not cause any difficulties. Typically, they are used to close the gap between the floor covering and the wall, screwing on the dowels. How to remove plastic skirting from the floor?

1. Remove the trim strip.
2. Remove the wires from the cable duct and unscrew the screws.
3. After the repair is complete, simply install the baseboard in place.

Important! Now about how to remove the corner of the plinth. After you have dismantled the bar, it will disappear by itself.

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Stucco molding

It is almost impossible to remove molding without damaging it. Remove stucco decor during repair, when the decoration does not fit into the updated design. In all other cases stucco is best not to touch.

You can try to remove it, having spent several times with a sharp knife on the joints, gradually pushing the blade deeper.

Important! If the mixture on which the decor is kept crumbles, then perhaps your attempts will succeed.

However, more often than not, tearing the plinth molding without damaging it does not work, so it is simply beaten using a chisel and a hammer.

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How to remove the plinth from the stretch ceiling( polystyrene, polystyrene)?

Foam and polystyrene strips, as a rule, are mounted on the adhesive. For dismantling such products:

1. Direct the flow of warm air to them to soften the adhesive.
2. Spread along the joint with a knife or a spatula and, carefully prideway the profile, remove it.

Important! Remove ceiling skirting should be done with the utmost care, without touching the front side, where the decoration is applied. Under the influence of warm air, the material becomes supple, and it can be damaged even by a slight mechanical action.

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MDF

Special fixing hardware or latches are used to fix the profile from MDF.

Important! When using fasteners, the profile is placed on top of them. The latches are screwed to the wall. After that, the skirting board joins them.

To remove the MDF structure, just one spatula is enough:

1. Tuck it under the bottom and lift it slightly.
2. If the profile remains in place, it means - it is fixed to the latches.
3. Place the spatula on the wall from below and carefully pull it toward you.

Profile easily detaches.

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Complicated cases of

This refers, in the first place, to wooden products that are fastened with nails or strong adhesive compounds. To successfully remove this profile, you will have to work hard. Begin to remove the plinth from the corner or door.

Filler and glue with strong fixation

Polyurethane and wooden profiles for floor and ceiling are peeled off with a kijan and thin trowel:

1. First, swipe several times with a spatula over the joint, for a small gap.
2. Now press the spatula from below, holding the handle against the wall.
3. Carefully tap the spatula handle with a kyanite so that the tip of the spatula enters between the wall and the bar.

Skirting is as if cut from the wall.

Nails:

1. First, before removing the plinth, sew the seams in the places where the profile joins the floor and the wall. As a rule, they are lacquered and painted.
2. Insert the chisel into the formed slot, hammer it with a hammer deeper.
3. Now insert a corner of wood into the expanded slot.
4. Repeat all manipulations through one meter, gradually tearing off the plinth.

Important! If the manipulations with the chisel did not end with success, use a nailer( fomka).But do not overdo it so as not to damage the profile.

The effort with which you will affect the fomka is quite large. Therefore, to not damage a floor covering, use as a substrate a thin plywood.

If the wooden profile is to be disposed of, then it is possible to do even easier: using a chisel, make a hole near the nail, and then use the nail gun.

Screws

For dismantling the skirting fixed with screws, it is important to find all their hats. Found? Means - further all is simple: unscrew them with the help of a screwdriver with a reverse or screwdriver.

Chopiki from wood

Is the profile fixed with wooden choppers? Looks like a fastening like wooden hats of rounded shape, located at the same distance from each other. Chopiki from a tree can be removed with a chisel, or drilled.

Thus, the dismantling of skirting from the floor and ceiling is of no particular complexity. A little patience, accuracy, and you will successfully cope with the task of