Removing Carpet Strips Hardwood Floor

After pulling up your carpet you will most likely have tack strips left around the perimeter of the room.

Removing carpet strips hardwood floor.

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. This needs to be removed. You may also need to remove your carpet if you have hardwood floors underneath that you would like to refinish. Once you have all of the tack strips up it is time to remove any staples on the floor from the carpet pad.

After you learn how to remove carpet from hardwood floors. Once the carpet pad and strips have been removed you will be left with a messy floor. Now that you have the strip of carpet pulled up set it to one side and pull up the padding using the same cut life and pull method. For safety place each strip in a box or trash can as you remove it.

Even if your carpet appeared clean before you started ripping it up you may have a visible layer of dirt covering the wood floor now. Removing old carpeting may be necessary to save labor costs if you are having your carpet replaced. In order to have that beautiful hardwood floor you need to keep in mind that there are two types of glues that are used when putting down a carpet general carpet adhesive and tar based glue. Wiggling it a bit as you do this should free it from the carpet strips or you can use the pliers as well.

The procedure for removal of both these adhesives is the same but the products used are not. Use a broom to sweep the dirt into a pile. I love using the wonder tool and these pliers for this job. Well there are a lot of ways to remove carpet padding on your wood floors but today and i m going to tell you the easiest way to do it.

Sweep the entire floor as soon as the tack strips have all been removed. I bought a house about 3 weeks ago and it has hardwood floor in the living room when i tried removing the old carpet it left padding residue and marks on the floor.