Tearing Up Carpet Tips

The right carpet is about more than color.

Tearing up carpet tips.

When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Don t jerk too hard or you may rip the carpet and have to start over. Drive long wood screws into the sub floor and through to floor joists anywhere the floor squeaks.

Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Remove entry or closet doors that might interfere with your work. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Once you get a good chunk of it up you can use your hands to start pulling backward.

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. Grab one corner of the carpet and pull it up from the floor. Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great.

Use a utility. Before you start ripping up the carpet clear all furniture from the room. When you ve selected your starting point grip onto the carpet with your pliers and tug upward firmly. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.

5 things to know before ripping up carpet yourself 1. Touch up paint on baseboards and around the. Level the sub floor and replace any water damaged wood as needed. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.

Apply a stain blocking primer to prevent old stains from coming up through new carpet.