Removing Glued Down Carpet Padding

Trying to pull it up just results in ripping off a little bit leaving some of it glued to the floor.

Removing glued down carpet padding. It s the same thickness give or take but more like moderately dense foam. Carpet comes up easy. Though incredibly effective this specialty glue is also notorious because it leaves behind sticky residue that is hard to remove with traditional removal methods. Pulling up the carpet and scraping underneath with a paint scraper to beak the glue bond is tedious work and wetting the carpet to loosen the adhesive may cause it to break into pieces.

Carpet adhesives manufactured in the 1980s or earlier may contain asbestos a known. Here are several tips to remove carpet padding to avoid damaging your flooring. As i shared a few weeks ago when we began pulling up the carpet in our family room we were met with a most unfortunate surprise under the carpet and carpet pad was another layer of carpet. The pad however has been glued down and it isn t your normal pad.

Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane. Carpet installers use strong mastic that doesn t deteriorate when they glue down carpets and they often use more than is really needed both of which spell bad news for you when you want to remove the carpet. Going to tear up the carpet pad and put in hardwood. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue.

This video and description contains affiliate lin. Throw away the debris. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue. Sharing a tutorial on the most effective way to remove glued down carpet after testing five different methods.

Before moving forward take note. Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours. I am going to be laying down peel and stick vinyl tiles down over wood floors but first i need to get the padding up off the floor. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper.

The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. Step 2 use boiling water. The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor.