Tearing Up Carpet Hardwood Floors

Remove the carpet tacking strips which may be nailed or stapled to the hardwood floor.

Tearing up carpet hardwood floors. Tools for restoring hardwood floors under carpet utility knife for cutting up carpet and or padding into more manageable size strips for rolling up and removing from the room. If you are trying to salvage the floor underneath make sure you do not cut grooves in the floor with the knife. Use your standard screwdriver to pry them from the floor. Prybar for pulling up the carpet tack strips.

Then start sawing away and get ready for a ton of dust. Our hardwood was 5 8 inch thick so that s how far the blade fell beneath the base of the saw. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. I ve redone several hardwood floors including one time removing carpet and redoing the beautiful wood floors underneath.

I m a big fan of hardwood flooring. Remove any carpet transition strips which are the metal strips nailed or screwed down in a doorway. But let me back up and tell you about a basement suite i rented after university. One way to do this is to lift the carpet away from the floor as you cut.

Now it s time to start prying the wood up. Be sure your saw blade is set to the thickness of your hardwood floors so that you re not cutting through your sub floor. Try to pull the carpeting back starting in one corner of the room. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.

Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. The work can be dusty so wear a dust mask and safety glasses. The basic rule of thumb with removing the carpet for a hardwood installation is that you just go in reverse to take things back to the original subfloor. Put on a pair of sturdy work gloves and start tearing up carpet in a corner of the room.

Move all the furniture and personal items out of the room you will be renovating. The first step in replacing your carpet with hardwood is removing the old carpet. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.

This means removing the carpet first the. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. The suite was beautiful.

Use the pliers to pull up any staples that remain stuck in the floor. It actually had a decent amount of natural light. The right carpet is about more than color.