Tearing Up Carpet Hardwood Floors

But let me back up and tell you about a basement suite i rented after university.

Tearing up carpet hardwood floors.

Move all the furniture and personal items out of the room you will be renovating. If you are trying to salvage the floor underneath make sure you do not cut grooves in the floor with the knife. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Use a utility knife or carpet knife to slice the carpet into manageable strips and roll the strips up as you go.

Our hardwood was 5 8 inch thick so that s how far the blade fell beneath the base of the saw. The right carpet is about more than color. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.

Try to pull the carpeting back starting in one corner of the room. The suite was beautiful. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Dispose of tacking strips and any staples or nails that held the strips in place.

Prybar for pulling up the carpet tack strips. Now it s time to start prying the wood up. I ve redone several hardwood floors including one time removing carpet and redoing the beautiful wood floors underneath. Be sure your saw blade is set to the thickness of your hardwood floors so that you re not cutting through your sub floor.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. One way to do this is to lift the carpet away from the floor as you cut. Then start sawing away and get ready for a ton of dust. Put on a pair of sturdy work gloves and start tearing up carpet in a corner of the room.

Tools for restoring hardwood floors under carpet utility knife for cutting up carpet and or padding into more manageable size strips for rolling up and removing from the room. Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great way to get pointed in the right direction for a new look for your floor but. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. The work can be dusty so wear a dust mask and safety glasses.

Use your standard screwdriver to pry them from the floor. This means removing the carpet first the. Use the pliers to pull up any staples that remain stuck in the floor. The first step in replacing your carpet with hardwood is removing the old carpet.

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 subfloor. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Remove any carpet transition strips which are the metal strips nailed or screwed down in a doorway.