Tear Up Carpet Concrete

Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers.

Tear up carpet concrete.

Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand. Tips on how to stain concrete floors. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. Consider what you are going to do with the carpet.

Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. July 17 2012 at 12 20 am. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked.

To remove them use a floor scraper. When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor.

Work on one. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. 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. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips.

You ll love your new cat room. This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. 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.

Cut the carpet into sections so it is easier to carry out of the room if you are throwing it out. Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an. Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it.

This includes removing carpe.