Getting up floorboards with no marks?

[The Ghost]

As a matter of interest, I was mulling about a tool that could lift floorboards with no marks. I wonder if anyone on here has any method/tool to do so. Having lifted, no doubt, hundreds of floorboards over the years I can certainly get pretty well any board up without breakage. However I cannot see how I could do so without some marking on the adjacent floorboard.
A customer recently picked me up about such marks and thought (maybe correctly) you should be able to do it with no marking. Any thoughts?

 

[telectrix]

Or, you could just smash the s**t out of the particular floorboard, chuck the remnants in the skip, pop down to your local timber merchants and purchase (at the cost to the customer) a new board(s).

PS my biggest abhorrence is chipboard

only problem there is that your new board will be metric short measure, narrower and thinner than original.

p.s. i hate weetabix board also.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Just rewired some offices that are all chipboard floors. Used the armeg solid board hole cutter and inserts....not a bad bit of kit imo.

Solid Board Cutters & Accessories - http://www.armeg.co.uk/solid-board-cutters-accessories.asp

 

[7029 dave]

Not talking about t&g because the only way is to smash hell out of the groves. Conventional boards lift up more than you need and cut with floor board saw, it is as simple as that.

 

[freddo]

Not at all, I moved a radiator over xmas and a multi tool on the tongues makes for a very neat job, no damage at all.

 

[PEG]

Or, you could just smash the s**t out of the particular floorboard, chuck the remnants in the skip, pop down to your local timber merchants and purchase (at the cost to the customer) a new board(s).

PS my biggest abhorrence is chipboard

...That's your chance of quoting for Shabbington's village dance hall floor,blown...

A pal of mine,re-floored his house at Dursingham,Norfolk,in that chip-board nonsense,and fixed them all with smooth 2 1/2" lost-heads...

We stayed there one weekend,and day and night,the ruddy place sounded like a scooby-doo pirate ship

 

[mydigitalhome]

Festool plunge saw on rails with vacuum with old blade Just in case I get the odd nail. Nice straight lines and bolster to lift board nice quick option and very little dust/mess.