Replace FE and APP server in SharePoint 2013 farm

Hello,
We have to replace the front-end web and app server from a SharePoint 2013 farm. The farm only has 1 FE, 1 APP and 1 SQL server. As the FE and APP were wrongly patched and have unsupported software installed there's no way of getting all servers
at same version level and to succesfully run the Product Configuration Wizard. The database server is ok but we have to replace the 2 other servers.
Is there any documented procedure to perform this migration/reinstall?
Thanks!
Martin

for first approach.
1- go to central admin and add all roles you need for the server that will stay
2- log into the server you will remove then run configuration wizard and choose disconnect from farm
you will have now one server, you can clean it up and keep it or later remove it when u have the new one
3- to add new server
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261752.aspx
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