Carpet installers use strong mastic that doesn t deteriorate when they glue down carpets and they often use more than is really needed both of which spell bad news for you when you want to remove the carpet.
Removing glued carpet pad.
Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours.
Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue.
The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later.
Sharing a tutorial on the most effective way to remove glued down carpet after testing five different methods.
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 padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor.
Step 1 scraping the carpet glue.
Pulling up the carpet and scraping underneath with a paint scraper to beak the glue bond is tedious work and wetting the carpet to loosen the adhesive may cause it to break into pieces.
As i shared a few weeks ago when we began pulling up the carpet in our family room we were met with a most unfortunate surprise under the carpet and carpet pad was another layer of carpet.
Throw away the debris.
Step 2 use boiling water.
Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper.
To use the scraper attachment insert the blade into your reciprocating saw and lock it in place.