Taking Up Old Carpet

Tack strips are metal nails that line the perimeter of your walls to hold the carpet.

Taking up old carpet.

Move the furniture out of the area where you. Use a utility. When pulling carpet off of tack strip on stairs make sure your weight is forward to prevent falling backwards if the carpet comes up easier than expect. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.

Carpet may cost money to dispose of so shop. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Decide the final goal of your remodeling. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.

Prep before pulling up carpet. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Cut carpet into easy to handle. How to remove old carpet 1.

Some older houses have. Figure out how you will dispose of the old carpet before you pull it up. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Before you start ripping up the carpet clear all furniture from the room.

Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. 5 things to know before ripping up carpet yourself 1. Detach carpet from tack strips. The right carpet is about more than color.

Do you want to save what s underneath the carpet. Removing the tack strip wedge the pry bar beneath the tack strip near each nail that holds it to the subfloor. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Lift up and remove the strip.

Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.