Removing Carpet Over Hardwood Floors

How to tear up carpet restore hardwood flooring step 1.

Removing carpet over hardwood floors. Well there are a lot of ways to remove carpet padding on your wood floors but today and i m going to tell you the easiest way to do it. Restoring hardwood floors under carpet in 4 easy steps 1. Remove the carpet tacking strips which may be nailed or stapled to the hardwood floor.

Start by pulling up the carpet materials needed. Use a utility knife or carpet knife to slice the carpet into manageable strips and roll the strips up as you go. Make sure nails staples and other debris are all off the.

Knowing how to clean old hardwood floors after removing carpet step 1. Remove carpet padding and all debris from the floor. After 26 hours of labor i found out how and how not to remove carpet padding from hardwood floors.

One way to do this is to lift the carpet away from the floor as you cut. Rubbery carpet padding can fuse onto a hardwood floor. Go to a corner of your carpeting and run a standard screwdriver between the edge of the wall and carpet.

With any luck you ll make a fairly straight cut at least five feet along the carpet. Start in the corners pulling the carpet off of the tack strips that are located along the edges. Carpet tacks are in essence little nails pointing directly up.

Typically there are three evenly spaced brad nails which are used to hold every three feet. Removing adhesive and glue. How to clean hardwood floor after removing carpet say goodbye to dust.