Taking Up Carpet From Concrete

Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers.

Taking up carpet from concrete.

Carpeting is big heavy and bulky lincon says and just the act of pulling it up is more. So i asked a contractor about staining the concrete floor and he said you really can t do it if carpet is down with a pre exisiting concrete floor due to cracks and unlevel concrete. There are two methods for attaching carpet to the floor. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out.

Removing carpet from a concrete floor can require some elbow work and some time. Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. Remove the 3 foot wide carpet sections from the tack strips by shaking the carpet in a back and forth motion while pulling it up from the surface of the floor.

All my best patti p. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. July 17 2012 at 12 20 am.

A prybar like this to remove the trim ours splintered into a thousand pieces when we removed it but with more substantial trim you can definitely put it back on. So go easy on filling the holes where the concrete will pull up from carpet tacking sand with an electric sander when dry and then stain. It is better to stain it from the beginning that way when they pour the concrete they know they are set up to stain it. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers.

You ll love your new cat room. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Carpet glue is an incredibly strong adhesive designed to fix rolls of carpet to concrete floors. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue.

Though incredibly effective this specialty glue is also notorious because it leaves behind sticky residue that is hard to remove with traditional removal methods. A scraper like this to remove excess glue we have concrete subfloors in this room but it worked well on the plywood subfloors upstairs too. Here are some alternative methods to get carpet glue off of concrete that will protect your health and your wallet. To remove them use a floor scraper.

This is the time consuming section of carpet removal. Tack strips or glue.