I just ordered a pair. Whoever laid the flooring in my house sure loved these staples. Thanks for the tip.

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!

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! 😭

You sir, you deserve an award for this video!!!! My god, what a huge time saver!!

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!!!

Very nice and informative. I can relate to to the blood example!

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 video! Although not a fella! It helped a ton!!!

Oh hell yeah!!! That worked great!!!! I am so happy I ran into your video!

Its gonna work perfectly for my project on this weekend! Thanks for this video

Thank you so so much! This worked so well! Saved me lots of time!

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!

Excellent video, thanks for the info!, Roger

After watching this.... you are my hero... so much faster

redoing subfloor on mobile home and i tried everything causing pain and suffering to my hands. definitely trying this method. wish me luck

Thanks for the tip

Great tip man thanks👍

Thanks now I can remove the staples!!

Thanks. For sharing

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.

dammm nice work mate

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

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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?

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.

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".

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.

Quite AvE-esque. Thanks for the tip

Thanks!

Long staples need long pliers. Good lookin out

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.

What if the staple is all way down? How to lift it enough to fit this tool in?

Is it a problem to just hammer them in?

Try a roof stripping shovel.

how to pull it halfway out?

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

DANG!

sons of guns haha! nice!

Grease lightening

It's not a vise grip it's a channel lock

And Ladies 😏

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!

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.

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 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️.

Ladies watching also. 🙊🙉🙈😂

I really hope someday you Janine, get off of KZfaq 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 KZfaq.