Removing Glued Carpet Pad

Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad.

Removing glued carpet pad.

To use the scraper attachment insert the blade into your reciprocating saw and lock it in place. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. Pulling up the carpet and scraping underneath with a paint scraper to beak the glue bond is tedious work and wetting the carpet to loosen the adhesive may cause it to break into pieces. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later.

Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue. Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours. Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane.

Sharing a tutorial on the most effective way to remove glued down carpet after testing five different methods. The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor. As i shared a few weeks ago when we began pulling up the carpet in our family room we were met with a most unfortunate surprise under the carpet and carpet pad was another layer of carpet. Step 2 use boiling water.

A 2 to 4 wide blade should be appropriate for removing carpet glue.