Removing Glued Carpet Underlay

When removing carpet especially old carpet you never know what to expect when you get down to the padding.

Removing glued carpet underlay. First we used a utility knife to cut the carpet into strips and peeled each strip of carpet up. A third alternative is to scrape off the adhesive. If you are faced with removing carpet padding that is stuck to your cement floor don t give up hope quite yet. Once the carpet has been removed you ll still have to remove the adhesive from the subfloor.

It does not come up easily. When replacing carpet or exposing the hardwood floor that is underneath the carpeting the rubber underlay will require removal. A 2 to 4 wide blade should be appropriate for removing carpet glue. It turns out it is very difficult to remove glued down carpet.

This post contains affiliate links. Some adhesives are water soluble drenching the floor with water often makes them easy to scrape off with a floor scraper chemical paint strippers also do the job. Had we realised the floor sander was so effective in removing the underlay we would not have bothered with so much scraping at first. To use the scraper attachment insert the blade into your reciprocating saw and lock it in place.

Carpet padding adhesive can be a concern for any homeowner taking steps to update his home. I removed a dirty old carpet that was left on the basement floor by the previous owners of my house. See my full disclosure here. Wear a respirator gloves goggles and protective clothing if you choose this option.

Unfortunately it has been glued to the floor. We removed carpet underlay and glue from a timber floor by scraping and then sanding with the floor sander and a makita orbital sander. Here are some alternative methods to get carpet glue off of concrete that will protect your health and your wallet. It appears that the rubber padding was placed down in the 70 s 80 s then when it was replaced the current carpet pad and carpet were just place right on top of the rubber layer.

How to remove glued down carpet. Some carpenters glue the underlay down making it a little more difficult but not impossible to remove from the subfloor. In fact it does its very best to remain firmly in place. If the scraper.

Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. What is the easiest method for removing the rubber underlay.