Tear Up Carpet Conrete

Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers.

Tear up carpet conrete.

When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. This includes removing carpe. Use a utility.

Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1.

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. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it.

Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet. To remove them use a floor scraper. Cut the carpet into sections so it is easier to carry out of the room if you are throwing it out.

This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. Tips on how to stain concrete floors. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers.

Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall.