Taking Up Old Carpet

Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips.

Taking up old carpet.

5 things to know before ripping up carpet yourself 1. Decide the final goal of your remodeling. Cut carpet into easy to handle. Tack strips are metal nails that line the perimeter of your walls to hold the carpet.

Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. When pulling carpet off of tack strip on stairs make sure your weight is forward to prevent falling backwards if the carpet comes up easier than expect.

When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Use a utility. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Some older houses have.

Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great. How to remove old carpet 1. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Removing the tack strip wedge the pry bar beneath the tack strip near each nail that holds it to the subfloor.

Do you want to save what s underneath the carpet. Figure out how you will dispose of the old carpet before you pull it up. Prep before pulling up carpet. Lift up and remove the strip.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Before you start ripping up the carpet clear all furniture from the room. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Move the furniture out of the area where you.

The right carpet is about more than color.