Removing Carpet Underlay From Hardwood Floors

Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor.

Removing carpet underlay from hardwood floors.

Dissolve the padding with chemical cleaning solvents such as an odorless mineral spirit that works like a paint thinner. 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. If you re watching this because you need to remove carpet staples from a hardwood floor it sucks to be you but hopefully this video saves you some pain and. 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.

When we pulled the old carpet and padding which was a blue yellow mixed color from our floors we found a thin layer of what apparently was black foam from the carpet before. At this point you ll want to roll it up replicating how the carpet comes when its brand new. Step 2 moisten an area of foam with a solvent that you ve tested and found to be safe for the floor finish. Remove carpet more than likely you ll have to use your knife to cut the carpet into strips as you pull it off the floor.

It had fused with the beautiful oak hardwood floors. You can dig into the foam without fear because the plastic isn t hard enough to scratch the floor finish. Scrape off as much of the carpet backing from the floor as you can using a plastic paint scraper.