How to remove large hardwood flooring staples fast and easy! Easy DIY method.
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- The previous owner of our house put down a million and half staples and I had to get them all out. I found a VERY fast way to remove them all in short order.
Here's a decent pair of needle nose pliers: amzn.to/3p0CjZY 
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I just ordered a pair. Whoever laid the flooring in my house sure loved these staples. Thanks for the tip.
same with my previous owner... I'm sure he got paid by the staple.
I just want to reach out and say thank you for posting this video! I went right out to the hardware store and got those 45° needle nose pliers. I thought this floor was going to take me all weekend but it ended up only taking me 3 hours because of your video. Thank you again!
Anytime! glad it helped. Sub if you can, that will help me :)
I'm off to Lowe's! Thank you so much. My hands were numb after 20 mins with needle nose pliers and i used every single example you used! 😭
Glad it worked out! The 45 degree pliers does the trick :)
THANK YOU! Holy cow - absolutely the best way to extract those staples!!! This should be REQUIRED viewing for anyone removing staples from flooring, and particularly when removing the massive number of nails from linoleum and underlayment tear out! Totally worth the $15 for a pair of that type of pliers from harbor freight. Seriously - kudos - and thank you!!!
Glad it worked! :)
You sir, you deserve an award for this video!!!! My god, what a huge time saver!!
Thanks! Appreciate it. share and sub if you can :)
Thank you so much!! The previous owner of my house used these 2 inch staples on my BEAUTIFUL original hardwood staircase and I could not get them out with regular needle nose pliers but will be buying the angled ones and trying those!
Awesome! Glad it helped :)
I'm in this hell right now. Engineered hardwood over 1950s oak hardwood. Staples every 4-6 inches in rows 6" wide. About 800 square feet worth. I'll be heading to the hardware store TONIGHT to get these. It will probably save me some pulled muscles, headaches, and an aneurism or two! Thank you!
Absolutely, i did this technique on 1500sqft and it saved so much time.
Had the exact same problem, with blood too, but didn't have any of those pliers. Thanks Bro!
@@Cpt_Adama hope it works out for you 😁
The 45-degree pliers are a good idea. I have been using a craftsman claw hammer with a small claw on one of the claws. You can make a second claw on any claw hammer using a file. Cutting staples with a multitool with a bi-metal blade also works well.
if it works!
redoing subfloor on mobile home and i tried everything causing pain and suffering to my hands. definitely trying this method. wish me luck
Good luck! Worked for me, no special tools :)
Oh hell yeah!!! That worked great!!!! I am so happy I ran into your video!
Glad I could help!
After watching this.... you are my hero... so much faster
glad i could help.
Fastest and easiest way I’ve found is sliding the sharp end of bigger garden shears across them. Pulls them out completely you just push across with both hands. Tools does all the work.
Thanks for sharing
Very nice and informative. I can relate to to the blood example!
Starts at 2:25
Its gonna work perfectly for my project on this weekend! Thanks for this video
Glad it helped, good luck :)
Awesome video! Although not a fella! It helped a ton!!!
Either way, glad I could help!
And let's be honest, 99% of watchers of my vids are dudes 🤣🤣🤣
Hey this worked much better then ither option but a new thing to ponder what about when the previous owner didn't take care of it and the brads rusted. There is no middle piece to hook to and the side are just long enough to hurt worse then legos with tetnis. I'm scaring the floor up trying to beat them back in. I'm beside myself with this "simple floor project".
Ya, that's crappy, the best i suppose you can do with that is a nail puller pliers i have in the video
Thanks now I can remove the staples!!
You got it, good luck :)
Thank you so so much! This worked so well! Saved me lots of time!
Glad it helped!
I had to do this at my job and saved my back my using a dirt rake which gives you all the leverage you need and only broke one of the teeth… still don’t understand why now one has made a tool for these staples lol
@@noahchristensen2030 that's not a bad idea
Try a roof stripping shovel.
I did, too blunt of an object and the staples were too long
Excellent video, thanks for the info!, Roger
No prob, glad it was helpful
Thanks for the tip
Hope it helps :)
Long staples need long pliers. Good lookin out
Kind of makes sense once you say it out loud, eh? LOL
Thanks. For sharing
Great tip man thanks👍
You bet
My staples are about half that Size...I'm hoping they have a thinner needle nose. Also, how did you get them up out of the floor to even put the pliers into the "top" part of the staples. Mine are flush with the floor.
You can pound in staples that are flush to the floor, especially the small staples.
What do you do when the staples are flat to the subfloor with padding underneath? this is a nightmare! that tool is not working for this.
I rip up the padding by itself, leaving the staples easier to grab.
@@GearheadDaily Used a sawzall to the ones that were a little higher, left the ones that were flat alone, got done in way less time, thanks for the reply
I have those staples holding siding T111 on that has to come loose.
Just how did you get the staples from their set flush with surface out to that handy height?
If they are flush, i just pound them down with a hammer and walk away.
It's not a vise grip it's a channel lock
It's not a Channel Lock, it's an Irwin tongue and groove pliers.
Quite AvE-esque. Thanks for the tip
He's the GOAT :D
Thanks!
Welcome!
What if the staple is all way down? How to lift it enough to fit this tool in?
if its all the way down, i just pound it down
dammm
nice work mate
Thanks Mate! IT was a ridiculous amount of staples
You said that correctly these types of nails are embedded in my stairs and I do not know have to get them out because they are lying flat as such they are a son of a g... for real
Glad i could help :)
Is it a problem to just hammer them in?
The smaller ones are fine to hammer in, these are the much much bigger guys that need to be pried out and cannot be pounded down.
Great video, short, sweet and to the point. Maybe next time take two minutes first to look up some of the tool names, those aren't vice grips and someone going to buy them might come home with the wrong thing.
Speaking of which, in a pinch you can use the non-moving end of those channel locks by itself and it'll work as a lever just like the angled needle noses did. Just tape the movable part to keep it out of the way.
Thanks!
how to pull it halfway out?
Not sure why you'd want to do that.
@@GearheadDaily because the staples went deep into the wood
@@zenwits in those cases you can pound them into the floor
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HA! It is
DANG!
Right?! Dude must have been paid by the staple.
sons of guns haha! nice!
Glad to be of help.
And Ladies 😏
True, ladies always included. But let's be honest... %95 of my audience is a sausage party LOL
Your video is helpful but infuriating. More time spent on the things that DON'T work versus the brand name/length/link of the tool you showed us that DID work. Do you have a link for the actual pliers that you used? An hour of searching on Amazon, and I'm still back to this video pausing and starting and pausing and starting to see any kind of hint as to what you used. Grrrrr.
Try these: amzn.to/3p0CjZY
@@GearheadDaily You have got to be sh*tting me! After watching your video over and over again, I took a chance and decided on that exact pair for my husband before you even had a chance to reply! I was on a mission, and I appreciate it so much. Thank you for the helpful video and for taking the time to affirm my choice and post the absolutely perfect reply. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
@@digitaptics Glad it all worked out. Hope it goes well for you.
I really hope someday you Janine, get off of RUclips and go to rumble or one of the other channels because for some reason with your site there are commercials in the beginning, and every three minutes during your show there’s a commercial and at the end there’s a commercial. I don’t know how much longer I can tolerate that kind of bullshit. I watch all of my other commentators on rumble unless they absolutely are not somewhere else. I hate RUclips.
Yep and the only bent pliers that are sold in Australia are Chinese plastic ones that bend after 2 staples. Went looking for good American, German or even Japanese but after 10-15 tool stores Nobody has them. 🤦♂️🤦♂️😡😡😡 tried ALL the ways you did and some methods snip them…. So I’ll probably have to punch them into the timber. So annoying and like you the idiot who put the Masonite down did a staple every 4 inches. Like the hard wood was going anywhere 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤦♂️.
Wait... you can't find ANY set of angled pliers? Anywhere? That seems... well, not right.
@@GearheadDaily Yep. Unless I ring the local Snap on guy….. And they’re $156 Au….. The Blue point ones are $36. But guess what…….. They’re made in Chyna…..🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️😡. SO frustrating!!
@@bnetolldnataman You could buy literally any other brand and have it shipped around the world for that price.
@@GearheadDaily Happy Dayzzzz. My floor sander guy said he’d do it!!! LEGEND!! Going to watch and learn how the master does it. 👍. You Stateside guys don’t realize how good you got it. Our country is run by tightasses and quality means nothing. 😪😪
@@bnetolldnataman do share!
Ladies watching also. 🙊🙉🙈😂
I welcome all! men, ladies... turtles who watch youtube... whatever! I'm just glad your here
Any tricks for removing staples from the hardwood flooring? I am talking about the staples used to install the flooring that go into the subfloor like in your video.
Our installers feathered in new oak flooring into our 30 year old flooring. Great match BTW for differences in ages.
The flooring that was removed (about 10 SQ FT) has staples in it and was not destroyed. I want to use that wood for another project.
Do I just snip the 'legs' of the staples off and then use a flathead to pry what is left out? That is what I am going to try first.
I was also thinking maybe I could use a punch to recess the top of the staple into the wood and then snip off the legs.
Thanks
Sorry no, usually saving the hardwood isn't worth the effort