Taking Up Carpet

If it won t come up then cut a small 6 inch by 6 inch square in the corner with your utility knife.

Taking up carpet.

Though incredibly effective this specialty glue is also notorious because it leaves behind sticky residue that is hard to remove with traditional removal methods. Carpet glue is an incredibly strong adhesive designed to fix rolls of carpet to concrete floors. Lifting up a carpet is a lot easier with the help of an assistant. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers.

Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Use a utility knife or carpet knife to slice the carpet into manageable strips and roll the strips up as you go. Learning how to clean old hardwood floors after removing carpet is easier than most people think it simply takes a little bit more time than a traditional floor clean. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand.

Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Of carpet and cut it into easy to handle strips photo 1.

One way to do this is to lift the carpet away from the floor as you cut. Thus you shouldn t have to remove the baseboards when taking out smelly carpet. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Take any doors off the hinges that swing into the room where the carpet will be removed using a screwdriver and hammer.

Fold back about 3 ft. With the help of the right products and a little bit of patience you ll be well on your way to restoring your hardwood to its original glory. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. If you are trying to salvage the floor underneath make sure you do not cut grooves in the floor with the knife.

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. Start at one corner of your room and try to pull up the carpet.