Removing Carpet Padding From Hardwood Floors

Then start pulling the foam padding off of the floor.

Removing carpet padding from hardwood floors.

I pulled up wall to wall carpet in a bedroom and the entrance area has blotches of film from padding what is the best way to clean this. You can start pulling at the tack strip at the bottom and remove the whole foam padding of the carpet. Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor. This needs to be removed.

Go to the corner of the floor area where the carpet is. And instead of coming right up most of the padding was cemented to the floor. In order to have that beautiful hardwood floor you need to keep in mind that there are two types of glues that are used when putting down a carpet general carpet adhesive and tar based glue. At first i tried to pick off the padding that could come off easily.

The hardwood looked fine but a different kind of rubbery carpet padding had been used in the room. Film from carpet padding. After removing the foam padding you must dispose them. With your hand pull them as much as you can to take them off the floor.

Mineral spirits and elbow grease should help to soften it up. You may want to remove the carpet padding yourself but if you re hiring a professional to work on your wood floor it may be better to have that person remove the padding as well. The procedure for removal of both these adhesives is the same but the products used are not.