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Originally Posted by BigRichard
Home Depot has a tool you can rent which is basically a jack hammer that lays at an angle with a sharp blade meant for tearing up the underlay. You ever used one of those? I thought that would be a quick way to tear it up if I needed to.
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It's a rotary hammer. I have a Bosch, which is a great tool, but I would pass on using it for this job.
With a long lever you can get further under the backerboard/underlay to pull the staples up as you tear out. With a rotary hammer it will break the board and staples off so that you have little pieces of wood jammed in the staples that are a pain to get out.
Just pray that they didn't glue down the backer.........