Tear Up Old Carpet

Before you start ripping up the carpet clear all furniture from the room.

Tear up old carpet.

Drive long wood screws into the sub floor and through to floor joists anywhere the floor squeaks. How to tear up carpet restore hardwood flooring step 1. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Cut carpet into haul able pieces.

Go to a corner of your carpeting and run a standard screwdriver between the edge of the wall and carpet. Remember to cut the carpet into smaller pieces as you go to make it easier to move and dispose of. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Prep before pulling up carpet.

Remove all debris from home and dispose of legally. Remove worn carpet pad and tack strips. Use a utility. Tack strips are metal nails that line the perimeter of your walls to hold the carpet.

Start at one corner of your room and try to pull up the carpet. Remove the carpet tacking strips which may be nailed or stapled to the hardwood floor. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Apply a stain blocking primer to prevent old stains from coming up through new carpet.

Remove this small piece of carpet and then pull upon the larger section. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.

Detach carpet from tack strips. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. If it won t come up then cut a small 6 inch by 6 inch square in the corner with your utility knife. How to remove old carpet 1.

How do you remove carpet glue. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Includes planning equipment and material acquisition area preparation and protection setup and cleanup. After you ve rolled up the old carpeting and removed it from the room you ll finally get a good look at the subfloor and any surprise damage that the carpet may have been hiding.

Detach carpet from tack strip and adjacent surfaces. Your carpet is held down with tack strips. Touch up paint on baseboards and around the. Cut carpet into easy to handle.

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.