Removing Carpet Strips Hardwood Floor

I love using the wonder tool and these pliers for this job.

Removing carpet strips hardwood floor.

This will avoid damage to the hardwood floors from grit and debris trapped beneath the tack strips. Once the carpet pad and strips have been removed you will be left with a messy floor. Removing old carpeting may be necessary to save labor costs if you are having your carpet replaced. In order to have that beautiful hardwood floor you need to keep in mind that there are two types of glues that are used when putting down a carpet general carpet adhesive and tar based glue.

You may also need to remove your carpet if you have hardwood floors underneath that you would like to refinish. This needs to be removed. How to remove tack strip from a hardwood floor without damaging the hardwood. After you learn how to remove carpet from hardwood floors.

Lay the padding on top of the carpet strip and roll them both up into a jelly roll. After pulling up your carpet you will most likely have tack strips left around the perimeter of the room. Wiggling it a bit as you do this should free it from the carpet strips or you can use the pliers as well. A lot of times i can just use the pliers to get the staples up but some staples are so close to the floor that i need to use the wonder tool to get them started.

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. 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. Even if your carpet appeared clean before you started ripping it up you may have a visible layer of dirt covering the wood floor now. Once you have all of the tack strips up it is time to remove any staples on the floor from the carpet pad.

Use a broom to sweep the dirt into a pile. Now that you have the strip of carpet pulled up set it to one side and pull up the padding using the same cut life and pull method.