How to Remove Bus Flooring

To remove the floor of an old school bus is no joke!  After removing the seats, taking out the old floor is a must.  Why?  Because you never know how much rust is under there.  Before you spend thousands of dollars building on top of it, you need to ensure you’re building on a solid foundation!

How to remove the floor can change school bus-by-school bus, but here is out we did with ours.

Our bus came with in-floor tracking. This made seat removal a breeze, but we found later that this came at a cost.  Removing the tracking itself was TOUGH.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Tools Required:

• Pry-bar
• Angle grinder
• Drill
• Hammer
• Safety gloves and glasses

1. First, the liner around the tracking has to be removed.  Wack each screw with a hammer a few times, then bring it up with the drill.  Stubborn screws can be yanked up with a small pry-bar.
2. Next, the rubber had to be removed.  The best tool for this is a large pry-bar.  Seriously, wear gloves for this because you’re working with years of grime and nasty!
3. Next comes pulling up the old plywood.  This is fun.  Your best tool, again, is the large pry-bar.  Safety goggles are a good idea because rusty nails are gonna start flying!
4. Chances are you’ll have a lot of nails stubbornly holding to the metal floor.  Pull as many up with the pry-bar as you can, then go at the rest with an angle grinder!

Next step is removing that floor tracking!