Ripping Up Carpet Wood Floor

Heavy duty leather work gloves to protect your hands from tacks linesman pliers to tug out staples.

Ripping up carpet wood floor. If your mild dish soap and water produced good results load up your bucket and continue the momentum being sure to wipe the floor completely dry when you re. Launch the phase that will render the results you ve been waiting for. Carpeting is big heavy and bulky lincon says and just the act of pulling it up is more difficult than it might seem at first for starters carpeting attaches to the floor along the edges. Get some knee pads work gloves and safety glasses to protect yourself pick up a utility knife needle nose pliers hammer and a pry bar.

Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. Pull the carpet up slowly not making any sudden moves. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. Pulling carpet up from stairs to see what was under the carpet we began to tear at a corner piece using pliers for assistance.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Pry up the carpet from the tacking strips underneath. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Wood floors under carpet go to a corner of your carpeting and run a standard screwdriver between the edge of the wall and carpet.

Carpet padding strips staples nails glue the basic rule of thumb with removing the carpet for a hardwood installation is that you just go in reverse to take things back to the original. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. If possible have an exacto knife or utility knife on hand and see if you can use it gently to remove the carpet where it gets stuck.

Water mixed with vinegar a favorite go to household cleaning product may end up looking dull once it dries. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and create a brighter more modern entry. To rip up wall to wall carpeting you ll need a few basic tools.

Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Chances are the carpet will probably get stuck at places on the flooring. Working in your test region remember that water alone probably won t remove all the dirt from your wood floor. Pull back the carpeting until the entire rug can be rolled up removed from your home and placed in a dumpster.

The actual cleaning of the floor. Pulling up carpet over natural hardwood floors needs to be done carefully or you could do some damage to the flooring. Take a look at these guidelines when you begin to pull up the carpet. Rip up the old carpet.

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.