The remainder of the morning is focused on demo of the tile. This is a loud and difficult process involving switching the hammer to opposite hands and switching functions between brothers. One is hammering while the other is sweeping up the pieces. Under the tile is cement board, which is the standard practice for tiling. The cement board is covered in the mortar that holds the tile in place. Once the cement board is up, we see that the flooring of choice before terracotta was linoleum. Under that linoleum is yet another layer of linoleum followed by the subfloor.
The most frustrating part of the process was getting up all of the nails after removing the tile and cement board. Whoever installed the cement board went absolutely nuts with nails. There were so many of them - often 5 or 6 in a square foot and sometimes in extremely close proximity to each other. In fact, one pair of nails were actually touching! Come on now! Excessive! Once all the layers are up, we sweep to prepare the linoleum for new cement board and tile. (We considered pulling up the linoleum layers, but it was coming up in extremely small pieces, likely because it was glued down.)
The remainder of the morning is focused on demo of the tile. This is a loud and difficult process involving switching the hammer to opposite hands and switching functions between brothers. One is hammering while the other is sweeping up the pieces. Under the tile is cement board, which is the standard practice for tiling. The cement board is covered in the mortar that holds the tile in place. Once the cement board is up, we see that the flooring of choice before terracotta was linoleum. Under that linoleum is yet another layer of linoleum followed by the subfloor. 
The most frustrating part of the process was getting up all of the nails after removing the tile and cement board. Whoever installed the cement board went absolutely nuts with nails. There were so many of them - often 5 or 6 in a square foot and sometimes in extremely close proximity to each other. In fact, one pair of nails were actually touching! Come on now! Excessive! Once all the layers are up, we sweep to prepare the linoleum for new cement board and tile. (We considered pulling up the linoleum layers, but it was coming up in extremely small pieces, likely because it was glued down.)
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