Tearing Up Carpet On Concrete

To remove them use a floor scraper.

Tearing up carpet on concrete.

You ll love your new cat room. In this case use a floor scraper to remove the pieces of padding that remain stuck to the floor. This includes removing carpe. 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.

Tips on how to stain concrete floors. Work on one. Cut the carpet into sections so it is easier to carry out of the room if you are throwing it out. Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers.

On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor. Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet.

Tack strips hold the carpet in place and those tack strips are nailed into the. All my best patti p. Use pliers to pull padding staples when removing carpet from stairs. On a concrete floor the carpet pad is often glued into place.

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. When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. Tough spots might require a power oscillating tool. This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors.

Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. July 17 2012 at 12 20 am.