Tearing Up Carpet On Concrete
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Tearing up carpet on concrete. You ll love your new cat room. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. To remove them use a floor scraper.
Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers. In this case use a floor scraper to remove the pieces of padding that remain stuck to the floor. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. All my best patti p.
On a concrete floor the carpet pad is often glued into place. This includes removing carpe. Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it. Tough spots might require a power oscillating tool.
Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. July 17 2012 at 12 20 am. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Work on one.
Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor. Consider what you are going to do with the carpet.
When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. So go easy on filling the holes where the concrete will pull up from carpet tacking sand with an electric sander when dry and then stain. Use pliers to pull padding staples when removing carpet from stairs. Tack strips hold the carpet in place and those tack strips are nailed into the.