Removing Carpet Underlay Staples

Look for traxx carpet flooring staples in the blue box.

Removing carpet underlay staples.

Cut the underlayment into 2 or 3 foot square sections. The underlay is stapled in about 1000 places. Removing tack strips was ok with a pry bar. Ergonomic grip for less fatigue.

Traxx 5418d staples are recommended for use with the tx 5418 txf 5418d. This video will show you the fastest way to remove staples from your floor when taking out carpet. Pulling up carpet and underlay was easy. Uses all 5418 staples.

Remove this small piece of carpet and then pull up on the larger section. If there are staples in the underlayment they might pull loose as. Your carpet is held down with tack strips. I went through and manually pulled every one of those staples.

And 80 of them had a piece of the foam stuck under it that had ripped off. Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor. But every single staple from the underlay was left. Instead they ve developed a smart efficient way to remove staples with a shovel or long handled floor scraper.

Http amzn to 2tv9o2n the handyguys demonstrate use diagonal pliers to remove carpet staples embedded in a wood f. It also shows how to remove carpet pad staples easy https. Use a prybar to get beneath each section and pull it up from the subfloor. Start at one corner of your room and try to pull up the carpet.

Soon becoming the 1 professional grade brand. Products from this video. 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. Subflooring and shovels flooring installers don t use a cat s paw to remove staples after old carpet has been removed there are just too many of them.

Hold the tool at about a 45 degree angle and slide it forcefully along the floor. As of now i m trying to remove every last one of them but it is tedious work. I m removing the vinyl kicten floor and sub floor to get everything the same level. The question is did i have to.

The subfloor was attached using a lot of staples. If it won t come up then cut a small 6 inch by 6 inch square in the corner with your utility knife.