Tearing Up Carpet Hardwood Floors

I ve redone several hardwood floors including one time removing carpet and redoing the beautiful wood floors underneath.

Tearing up carpet hardwood floors. But let me back up and tell you about a basement suite i rented after university. Now it s time to start prying the wood up. Use the pliers to pull up any staples that remain stuck in the floor. Be sure your saw blade is set to the thickness of your hardwood floors so that you re not cutting through your sub floor.

One way to do this is to lift the carpet away from the floor as you cut. 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. Our hardwood was 5 8 inch thick so that s how far the blade fell beneath the base of the saw. Remove any carpet transition strips which are the metal strips nailed or screwed down in a doorway.

Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. 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. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. It actually had a decent amount of natural light.

Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. 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.

The right carpet is about more than color. The work can be dusty so wear a dust mask and safety glasses. Remove the carpet tacking strips which may be nailed or stapled to the hardwood floor. The suite was beautiful.

Dispose of tacking strips and any staples or nails that held the strips in place. Move all the furniture and personal items out of the room you will be renovating. The first step in replacing your carpet with hardwood is removing the old carpet. Use your standard screwdriver to pry them from the floor.

This means removing the carpet first the. 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. Use a utility knife or carpet knife to slice the carpet into manageable strips and roll the strips up as you go. I m a big fan of hardwood flooring.

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Try to pull the carpeting back starting in one corner of the room.