Tear Up Carpet Concrete

This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors.

Tear up carpet concrete. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. You ll love your new cat room. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand.

Cut the carpet into sections so it is easier to carry out of the room if you are throwing it out. All my best patti p. When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor.

This includes removing carpe. Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out.

Tips on how to stain concrete floors. 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. Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. July 17 2012 at 12 20 am.

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. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet.

How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. Work on one. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked.

To remove them use a floor scraper.