Tear Up Carpet Concrete

When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers.

Tear up carpet concrete.

It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet. Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1.

This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. 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. 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. Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. You ll love your new cat room.

Tips on how to stain concrete floors. All my best patti p. Cut the carpet into sections so it is easier to carry out of the room if you are throwing it out. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.

Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers. Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it. This includes removing carpe. 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.

On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an.

July 17 2012 at 12 20 am.