Tearing Up Carpet Hardwood Floors

Use a utility knife or carpet knife to slice the carpet into manageable strips and roll the strips up as you go.

Tearing up carpet hardwood floors.

Put on a pair of sturdy work gloves and start tearing up carpet in a corner of the room. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.

Then start sawing away and get ready for a ton of dust. I ve redone several hardwood floors including one time removing carpet and redoing the beautiful wood floors underneath. Dispose of tacking strips and any staples or nails that held the strips in place. I m a big fan of hardwood flooring.

Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great way to get pointed in the right direction for a new look for your floor but. 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. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Remove the carpet tacking strips which may be nailed or stapled to the hardwood floor.

Remove any carpet transition strips which are the metal strips nailed or screwed down in a doorway. One way to do this is to lift the carpet away from the floor as you cut. This means removing the carpet first the. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.

Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. The suite was beautiful. Use the pliers to pull up any staples that remain stuck in the floor. The first step in replacing your carpet with hardwood is removing the old carpet.

Prybar for pulling up the carpet tack strips. Move all the furniture and personal items out of the room you will be renovating. But let me back up and tell you about a basement suite i rented after university. If you are trying to salvage the floor underneath make sure you do not cut grooves in the floor with the knife.

Be sure your saw blade is set to the thickness of your hardwood floors so that you re not cutting through your sub floor. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Try to pull the carpeting back starting in one corner of the room. Now it s time to start prying the wood up.

It actually had a decent amount of natural light. The right carpet is about more than color. Use your standard screwdriver to pry them from the floor.