Removing Carpet Underlay From Hardwood Floors

Scrape with a metal tool but with care not to scratch the wood.

Removing carpet underlay from hardwood floors.

Dissolve the padding with chemical cleaning solvents such as an odorless mineral spirit that works like a paint thinner. 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. Scrape off as much of the carpet backing from the floor as you can using a plastic paint scraper. At this point you ll want to roll it up replicating how the carpet comes when its brand new.

We scraped by hand from a standing position with a long handled scraper. When we pulled the old carpet and padding which was a blue yellow mixed color from our floors we found a thin layer of what apparently was black foam from the carpet before. If you re watching this because you need to remove carpet staples from a hardwood floor it sucks to be you but hopefully this video saves you some pain and. Its easiest to pull a section off of the tack strips and then cut the carpet into long thin strips.

It had fused with the beautiful oak hardwood floors. Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor. Remove carpet more than likely you ll have to use your knife to cut the carpet into strips as you pull it off the floor.