Taking Up Old Carpet

Cut carpet into easy to handle.

Taking up old carpet.

Lift up and remove the strip. Decide the final goal of your remodeling. Some older houses have. When pulling carpet off of tack strip on stairs make sure your weight is forward to prevent falling backwards if the carpet comes up easier than expect.

Use a utility. The right carpet is about more than color. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Tack strips are metal nails that line the perimeter of your walls to hold the carpet.

Do you want to save what s underneath the carpet. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Detach carpet from tack strips. Before you start ripping up the carpet clear all furniture from the room.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great. Figure out how you will dispose of the old carpet before you pull it up.

Removing the tack strip wedge the pry bar beneath the tack strip near each nail that holds it to the subfloor. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Prep before pulling up carpet.

Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Move the furniture out of the area where you. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall.

Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out.