Removing Glued Carpet Padding Hardwood Floors

Flooring experts informed our team of several common causes.

Removing glued carpet padding hardwood floors.

Over several years it might have bonded to the polyurethane. The padding may have been glued or stapled to the 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. Start with a scraping tool.

It takes some elbow grease but it worked. 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. Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane. I saw a tip somewhere to use resolve the carpet cleaner but not to clean the carpet but get the padding residue up from a hardwood floor.

Your first measure is to manually remove as much glue as you can with a scraping tool while this may not banish every last bit of carpet glue from the floor. When you remove carpeting only to find hardwood floors underneath it can feel like you ve hit the jackpot right up until you notice the unsightly residual carpet glue. The padding was not glued down but fused with the floor anyway. Remove carpet glue from hardwood floors with flooring professionals.

To return your hardwood floors to their former glory you need to remove the leftover carpet glue.