removing tiles on a concrete bed from floorboards

[shelleyn]

I have terracotta tiles on a concrete bed with chicken mesh through it, on lino type material, on the floorboards that I think are cypress. I want to remove all that from the floorboards so that I can polish them.
I read Tamsin Greg's method of using the chisel and hammer to break the tiles. He had a concrete sheeting on the floorboards. I'm concerned with bruising & chipping the floorboards when I lift them after breaking them up because they still stay fairly tied together with the chicken mesh in the concrete and only lino protecting the boards. Does anyone have ideas? How do those light jackhammers go with this sort of thing?
Thank you.

 

[roughcaster]

Why not start it off carefully with a hammer and chisel and see how it goes.Once you get an area cleared back to the floorboards,you'll have a better idea.Even with a light jackhammer,it would be easy to cause damage.You never said how thick the concrete bed was.If it's not too thick,then once you get started you might be able to get under it,again carefully, with a flat spade to pull it up manually,bit at a time,no matter how long it takes.The lino underneath will protect it a bit meantime.The finished floorboards will be worth it.

Roughcaster.