Taking Up Carpet From Concrete

On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor.

Taking up carpet from concrete.

July 17 2012 at 12 20 am. To remove them use a floor scraper. 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. Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers.

This is the time consuming section of carpet removal. Remove the 3 foot wide carpet sections from the tack strips by shaking the carpet in a back and forth motion while pulling it up from the surface of the floor. All my best patti p. Carpeting is big heavy and bulky lincon says and just the act of pulling it up is more.

When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. Here are some alternative methods to get carpet glue off of concrete that will protect your health and your wallet. Rel noopener noreferrer this to cut the carpet up in the first place. Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet.

Tack strips or glue. It is better to stain it from the beginning that way when they pour the concrete they know they are set up to stain it. A prybar like this to remove the trim ours splintered into a thousand pieces when we removed it but with more substantial trim you can definitely put it back on. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out.

Carpet glue is an incredibly strong adhesive designed to fix rolls of carpet to concrete floors. So i asked a contractor about staining the concrete floor and he said you really can t do it if carpet is down with a pre exisiting concrete floor due to cracks and unlevel concrete. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers.

Though incredibly effective this specialty glue is also notorious because it leaves behind sticky residue that is hard to remove with traditional removal methods. Removing carpet from a concrete floor can require some elbow work and some time. A scraper like this to remove excess glue we have concrete subfloors in this room but it worked well on the plywood subfloors upstairs too. You ll love your new cat room.

Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. There are two methods for attaching carpet to the floor.