Removing Carpet Strips Hardwood Floor

Even if your carpet appeared clean before you started ripping it up you may have a visible layer of dirt covering the wood floor now.

Removing carpet strips hardwood floor.

Well there are a lot of ways to remove carpet padding on your wood floors but today and i m going to tell you the easiest way to do it. You may also need to remove your carpet if you have hardwood floors underneath that you would like to refinish. Use a broom to sweep the dirt into a pile. This will avoid damage to the hardwood floors from grit and debris trapped beneath the tack strips.

After you learn how to remove carpet from hardwood floors. I love using the wonder tool and these pliers for this job. A lot of times i can just use the pliers to get the staples up but some staples are so close to the floor that i need to use the wonder tool to get them started. Once the carpet pad and strips have been removed you will be left with a messy floor.

How to remove tack strip from a hardwood floor without damaging the hardwood. Wiggling it a bit as you do this should free it from the carpet strips or you can use the pliers as well. Removing old carpeting may be necessary to save labor costs if you are having your carpet replaced. For safety place each strip in a box or trash can as you remove it.

Lay the padding on top of the carpet strip and roll them both up into a jelly roll. This needs to be removed. 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. The procedure for removal of both these adhesives is the same but the products used are not.

After pulling up your carpet you will most likely have tack strips left around the perimeter of the room. I bought a house about 3 weeks ago and it has hardwood floor in the living room when i tried removing the old carpet it left padding residue and marks on the floor.