Removing Glued Down Carpet Underlay

Some carpenters glue the underlay down making it a little more difficult but not impossible to remove from the subfloor.

Removing glued down carpet underlay. The carpet that was in the house was very old and underneath all that was very old vinyl tiles. First we used a utility knife to cut the carpet into strips and peeled each strip of carpet up. In fact it does its very best to remain firmly in place. Had we realised the floor sander was so effective in removing the underlay we would not have bothered with so much scraping at first.

Discussion in general discussion started by thebigcheese 14 jul 2009. If you just removed carpet and now you need to remove the carpet glue from a concrete floor here are some tips the methods below are easy ways for preparing your concrete floors for laminate tile or hardwood you can try the environmentally friendly products or use the proven but toxic chemical glue strippers. See my full disclosure here. Hi folks some.

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. When replacing carpet or exposing the hardwood floor that is underneath the carpeting the rubber underlay will require removal. Removing glued down crapet underlay. Show only op 14 jul 2009 at 16 40 1.

Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue. It turns out it is very difficult to remove glued down carpet. This post contains affiliate links.

Removing glued down carpet underlay. How to remove glued down carpet. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. We removed carpet underlay and glue from a timber floor by scraping and then sanding with the floor sander and a makita orbital sander.

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. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. It does not come up easily. 6 sep 2005 posts.