Tearing Up Carpet On Concrete

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Tearing up carpet on concrete.

Tips on how to stain concrete floors. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers.

On a concrete floor the carpet pad is often glued into place. Tough spots might require a power oscillating tool. 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. This includes removing carpe.

To remove them use a floor scraper. Use pliers to pull padding staples when removing carpet from stairs. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it.

It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet. This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Work on one. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out.

Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. All my best patti p. July 17 2012 at 12 20 am. When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers.

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 and those tack strips are nailed into the. 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.