Tearing Up Carpet Tips

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Tearing up carpet tips. The right carpet is about more than color. 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. Drive long wood screws into the sub floor and through to floor joists anywhere the floor squeaks.

Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. When you ve selected your starting point grip onto the carpet with your pliers and tug upward firmly. Remove entry or closet doors that might interfere with your work. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.

Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Once you get a good chunk of it up you can use your hands to start pulling backward. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Level the sub floor and replace any water damaged wood as needed.

Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. 5 things to know before ripping up carpet yourself 1. Use a utility. You might also consider vacuuming the carpet one last time to minimize the mess during removal.

Don t jerk too hard or you may rip the carpet and have to start over. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Grab one corner of the carpet and pull it up from the floor. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.

Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great.