Taking Out Carpet In Rv

Before we finally decided we wanted to give the floor some time to air out plus get a chance to look at the area without the rv carpet.

Taking out carpet in rv.

Pulling out every strand of carpet can be stressful make sure you focus and push forward and you will get the carpet out. I m happy to say that we finally replaced our bedroom carpet in just one afternoon all for under 60. A sweep and a little wash with floor cleaner and we are good to go. We re back in action.

It was pretty quick and easy and now we wish we d done it 3 years ago. Been busy the past few months but we re finally ready to get this project started and couldn t be more excited. Here s the final tutorial about our rv that was totaled a week after we finished renovations and it s all about how to install rv flooring we will cover how to remove the previous carpet and linoleum choosing the right flooring for a rv preparing to install flooring especially when you find surprises under the old stuff and finally how to install rv flooring. Step 1 measure for the new carpet.

The rv carpet removal. I m extremely satisfied with the result of this mod. Take specific measurements of your rv s floor space. Carpet padding is usually stapled down to the wood subfloor with staples and sometimes the factory worker installing it uses a lot of staples which was our case.

We have begun our rv renovation. If removing carpet from your slide out know going in that your patience will be tested. Most factory installed rv carpet is cheap junk. With the carpet and padding out of the rv the subfloor needs to prepped and repaired to make the install of the new vinyl lay out smoothly with no imperfections.

Step 2 peel scrape and remove old surface. The flooring looks nice and the new baseboard trim looks pretty sharp i think. Going forward this is going to be much easier to clean and maintain. First steps include ripping up the carpet removing the handles and removing furniture.

Here are some additional tips we learned in order to replace the flooring inside an rv slide out. Russ removed our carpet with a simple utility knife used need nose pliers to pry up the edging staples. It s not every day you get to see a naked rv floor. If you re thinking about replacing the carpet in your rv or even in your house with carpet tiles read on.