Tear Up Carpet Concrete

Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers.

Tear up carpet concrete.

This includes removing carpe. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. Cut the carpet into sections so it is easier to carry out of the room if you are throwing it out. Tips on how to stain concrete floors.

It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet. This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Work on one. When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers.

Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it.

Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand. 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.

Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. July 17 2012 at 12 20 am. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips.

Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers. All my best patti p. 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. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an.

The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked.