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circular saw.
 
I tend to use a jigsaw to cut the board, both down the grooves if it has any and across the the board itself if I only want a small section up, going where the nails are to be sure you're on the joist.
 
cut across the joist run a circular saw down the tongue and groove . bolster up job done
 
circ saw or multitool fein type but just a cheapy one. most houses I have had the fortune of being in after the central heating so they had been up anyway and like Billy said not too well taken up either :D
 
I Have a cheapo feintool type tool from Aldi and so far it's been great! I will probibly get the bosch equivilent when it dies. Great especially if you need to lift close to walls ect.

Rich
 
oh and try and lift a board where two floor boards meet, that way you can set your circular saw at the right depth, and you wont cut through anything that may be running across the joist in a shallow notch such as a pipe or some previously installed ring mains, lighting cables and shower feeds, not that i have ever done that of course :blush5:
 
Whatever you do dont ask the plumbers to do it!!!!!

there are several ways of finding where plumbers have lifted boards.

1. water marks on the carpet.
2. creaks when you walk over.
3. bloody great draught from under floor.
4. 4" nails in boards, impossible to remove without destroying the board/s.
5. notches in joists big enough for a bus, rarely within the prescribed zones.
6. burnt and blackened joists and cables.
7. hot pipes threaded through, or sitting on, cables.
 
LOL tel, you also forgot the dam gas pipe that they lay under an existing nail hole that had been in the board for years and some unsuspecting person like myself 14 or so years ago goes to sort out the squeaky board and yep a second later hears a funny noise and the smell of an expensive Friday night emergency call out from British gas. never got charged though as he had some choice words to say about the gas fitters :)
 

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