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<br/><br/>I’ve been thinking about the nails protruding through my family room subfloor and how to remove them for a staple up. Here’s my untried idea – use a Dremel tool. You can buy cut-off wheels for Dremel tools, allowing the cut right at the surface of the subfloor. Cutting off, rather than grinding down, results in far less sparks than an angle grinder. Also, the Dremel is lighter.<br/><br/>There are two types of cut-off wheels – reinforced and un-reinforced. I like the un-reinforced, because they are thinner, so they cut faster with less sparks. However, the big tradeoff is that they shatter if a side-force is added, whereas the reinforced are far more durable. The wheels are so small and light, that when they shatter, no damage to me or the surronding materials ever occured. I’ve cut off rusted nuts and/or bolts this way, numerous times. But doing the nails will be a first.

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