Some of the flooring planks on the first floor is damaged due to alarm
and plumbing and wiring being fitted. This is mainly the tongue being
sawn through through to be able to lift the planks.

The plan is to strip one of the bedrooms of its T&G planks, and use
these to replace the damaged ones on the rest of the first floor. (This
sacrificial room will have T&G caberfloor chipboard put down as a
replacement as its a 1/3 of the cost of new pine T&G floorboards)

The old floor planks are nailed down.

Now does anyone have a technique for getting the floorboards up without
damaging it at all?

Stephen.

Stephen H wrote:
Now does anyone have a technique for getting the floorboards up
without damaging it at all?

You start by sacrifically destroying one of them, then lever
up the one adjoining it to pull up the nails enough to get
a claw hammer on them to pull them out, then slide out the
floorboard. Move to n+1 and repeat.

JGH

On Jun 9, 10:14*am, Stephen H wrote:
Some of the flooring planks on the first floor is damaged due to alarm
and plumbing and wiring being fitted. This is mainly the tongue being
sawn through through to be able to lift the planks.

The plan is to strip one of the bedrooms of its T&G planks, and use
these to replace the damaged ones on the rest of the first floor. (This
sacrificial room will have T&G caberfloor chipboard put down as a
replacement as its a 1/3 of the cost of new pine T&G floorboards)

The old floor planks are nailed down.

Now does anyone have a technique for getting the floorboards up without
damaging it at all?

Stephen.

Wouldn't it be easier just to buy a few floorboards to replace the
damaged ones?

If your boards are fixed down in the traditional manner with flooring
brads, it will be quite difficult to remove them without at least a
little further damage to tongues and grooves.

Regards
Richard

fOn Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:14:09 +0100, Stephen H
wrote:

Some of the flooring planks on the first floor is damaged due to alarm
and plumbing and wiring being fitted. This is mainly the tongue being
sawn through through to be able to lift the planks.

The plan is to strip one of the bedrooms of its T&G planks, and use
these to replace the damaged ones on the rest of the first floor. (This
sacrificial room will have T&G caberfloor chipboard put down as a
replacement as its a 1/3 of the cost of new pine T&G floorboards)

The old floor planks are nailed down.

Now does anyone have a technique for getting the floorboards up without
damaging it at all?

Angle grinder.

--
Frank Erskine

On Jun 9, 10:14*am, Stephen H wrote:
Some of the flooring planks on the first floor is damaged due to alarm
and plumbing and wiring being fitted. This is mainly the tongue being
sawn through through to be able to lift the planks.

The plan is to strip one of the bedrooms of its T&G planks, and use
these to replace the damaged ones on the rest of the first floor. (This
sacrificial room will have T&G caberfloor chipboard put down as a
replacement as its a 1/3 of the cost of new pine T&G floorboards)

The old floor planks are nailed down.

Now does anyone have a technique for getting the floorboards up without
damaging it at all?

Stephen.

If the damaged planks needed the tongue removed to lift them, are you
planning to chop off the bottom of the groove from the replacements?
Otherwise, they won't fit.

I think you'd be better off getting a few new boards and making good
with them than trying to rip up a whole room with the inevitable
damage that will ensue.