Removing Glued Down Carpet Underlay

Hello i am going to be laying down peel and stick vinyl tiles down over wood floors but first i need to get the padding up off the floor.

Removing glued down carpet underlay.

How to remove glued down carpet. See my full disclosure here. When replacing carpet or exposing the hardwood floor that is underneath the carpeting the rubber underlay will require removal. Removing glued down crapet underlay.

Step 2 use boiling water. Show only op 14 jul 2009 at 16 40 1. Pulling up the carpet and scraping underneath with a paint scraper to beak the glue bond is tedious work and wetting the carpet to loosen the adhesive may cause it to break into pieces. Easiest way to remove glued foam carpet backing from floors.

Discussion in general discussion started by thebigcheese 14 jul 2009. It does not come up easily. First we used a utility knife to cut the carpet into strips and peeled each strip of carpet up. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue.

In fact it does its very best to remain firmly in place. Carpet installers use strong mastic that doesn t deteriorate when they glue down carpets and they often use more than is really needed both of which spell bad news for you when you want to remove the carpet. This post contains affiliate links. Hi folks some.

The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. 6 sep 2005 posts. It turns out it is very difficult to remove glued down carpet.

We removed carpet underlay and glue from a timber floor by scraping and then sanding with the floor sander and a makita orbital sander. The carpet that was in the house was very old and underneath all that was very old vinyl tiles. Some carpenters glue the underlay down making it a little more difficult but not impossible to remove from the subfloor. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper.