Removing Glued-Down Plywood
- 1). Evaluate the plywood. Make sure it is not rotted or otherwise damaged anywhere. Damaged or rotted pieces should be cut out and removed separately by hand or with a shovel if there are a lot of pieces.
- 2). Insert a pry bar into an edge or seam of the first piece of plywood and lift up firmly but not too quickly. If you do this too fast with a piece of glued-down plywood, you risk ripping the plywood.
- 3). Lift the plywood up and away by hand if possible. If the glue makes it difficult to do this, insert a flat-edged tool like an ice-scraper to help lift it and scrape away at the glue.
- 4). Use a circular saw, adjusted to the height of the plywood, to remove a section of the plywood that needs replacing. In this case, you do not want to pry up all of the plywood. Once you make the cut around the area that needs to be replaced, use your pry bar to pry it up off the glued surface.
