Tearing Up Carpet Hardwood Floors

Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet.

Tearing up carpet hardwood floors.

Remove the carpet tacking strips which may be nailed or stapled to the hardwood floor. Prybar for pulling up the carpet tack strips. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. But let me back up and tell you about a basement suite i rented after university.

Dispose of tacking strips and any staples or nails that held the strips in place. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Put on a pair of sturdy work gloves and start tearing up carpet in a corner of the room. I m a big fan of hardwood flooring.

The work can be dusty so wear a dust mask and safety glasses. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. The basic rule of thumb with removing the carpet for a hardwood installation is that you just go in reverse to take things back to the original subfloor. It actually had a decent amount of natural light.

Use the pliers to pull up any staples that remain stuck in the floor. I ve redone several hardwood floors including one time removing carpet and redoing the beautiful wood floors underneath. Tools for restoring hardwood floors under carpet utility knife for cutting up carpet and or padding into more manageable size strips for rolling up and removing from the room. One way to do this is to lift the carpet away from the floor as you cut.

If you are trying to salvage the floor underneath make sure you do not cut grooves in the floor with the knife. Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great way to get pointed in the right direction for a new look for your floor but. Our hardwood was 5 8 inch thick so that s how far the blade fell beneath the base of the saw. Use a utility knife or carpet knife to slice the carpet into manageable strips and roll the strips up as you go.

Use your standard screwdriver to pry them from the floor. The first step in replacing your carpet with hardwood is removing the old carpet. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips.

Be sure your saw blade is set to the thickness of your hardwood floors so that you re not cutting through your sub floor. Then start sawing away and get ready for a ton of dust. Remove any carpet transition strips which are the metal strips nailed or screwed down in a doorway. The suite was beautiful.

Move all the furniture and personal items out of the room you will be renovating. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. The right carpet is about more than color.