Removing Carpet Padding From Hardwood Floors

Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor.

Removing carpet padding from hardwood floors. And instead of coming right up most of the padding was cemented to the floor. Film from carpet padding. With your hand pull them as much as you can to take them off the floor. Mineral spirits and elbow grease should help to soften it up.

You may want to remove the carpet padding yourself but if you re hiring a professional to work on your wood floor it may be better to have that person remove the padding as well. In order to have that beautiful hardwood floor you need to keep in mind that there are two types of glues that are used when putting down a carpet general carpet adhesive and tar based glue. I bought a house about 3 weeks ago and it has hardwood floor in the living room when i tried removing the old carpet it left padding residue and marks on the floor. Then start pulling the foam padding off of the floor.

Go to the corner of the floor area where the carpet is. The hardwood looked fine but a different kind of rubbery carpet padding had been used in the room. This needs to be removed. The procedure for removal of both these adhesives is the same but the products used are not.

The house was built in 1979 so it is a waxed wood floor. At first i tried to pick off the padding that could come off easily. I pulled up wall to wall carpet in a bedroom and the entrance area has blotches of film from padding what is the best way to clean this.