Ripping Up Carpet And Staining Concrete
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Ripping up carpet and staining concrete. I ve never done anything like this before so i was hoping someone could give me the steps that i need to take and the products that i will need. I want to rip up the carpet and stain the concrete under it. I bought a house that has a small sunroom but it is carpeted. Replace carpet and tile floors with concrete plus see examples of before and after photos.
Depending on the amount of light you get down there you may want to use a light colored stain if not much natural light or if a lot of natural light go with the darker leather color. Stained concrete would be much cleaner and smell fresher than carpet in the finished basement. So i asked a contractor about staining the concrete floor and he said you really can t do it if carpet is down with a pre exisiting concrete floor due to cracks and unlevel concrete. Some of the challenges include ripping up and disposing of the old flooring and removing any adhesives.
The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. Removing carpet and staining concrete floor we have carpet right now and i was told by someone it is cheaper to stain your concrete floor instead of putting laminate wood flooring down. It would have cost us over 3000 for new carpet and more than that for tile or wood floors and we purchased the items needed to stain the concrete ourselves and instead got the job done for less than 600 and have ended up with a much better outcome in my opinion. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers.
Feb 25 2018 explore jasmine hunt s board ripping up carpet on pinterest.