Remove Carpet Tack Without Damaging Concrete

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Remove carpet tack without damaging concrete.

If you decide to remove the carpet you must also pry up the tack strips which are held in place with nails. How to cut carpet tack from concrete. When hammering in the other hammer tap lightly and make sure not to move the. Once you have all of the tack strips up it is time to remove any staples on the floor from the carpet pad.

Carpet tack strips are wooden boards installed around the perimeter of a floor to hold carpet in place. The strips are nailed to the. I lifted nailed some carpet tack strips this way using a small pry bar. Taking a carpet tack strip off of a concrete floor will be somewhat different from taking it off of a hardwood floor especially if you plan on keeping and restoring the hardwood floor.

Since these tack strips are nailed into the floor there will be small holes in the floor when you are done but it is important to cause as little damage as possible in the process. Its not that hard with these tips from clay king from aaa flood drying with 28. I used a rubber mallet no steel hammers. They ll damage the pry bar to get the end of the bar underneath some of the strips.

A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor. Flooring stairs i want to replace carpet with ceramic tile but i can t seem to remove the tack strip nails without gouging out areas of. That way you don t enlarge the hole. This is me and my father removing a tack strip without damage to the concrete.

I love using the wonder tool and these pliers for this job. A lot of times i can just use the pliers to get the staples up but some staples are so close to the floor that i need to use the wonder tool to get them started.