Removing Glued Down Carpet Padding

Step 1 scraping the carpet glue.

Removing glued down carpet padding.

Carpet glue is an incredibly strong adhesive designed to fix rolls of carpet to concrete floors. Carpet adhesives manufactured in the 1980s or earlier may contain asbestos a known. Throw away the debris. 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.

Sharing a tutorial on the most effective way to remove glued down carpet after testing five different methods. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue. Carpet comes up easy. Carpet installers use strong mastic that doesn t deteriorate when they glue down carpets and they often use more than is really needed both of which spell bad news for you when you want to remove the carpet.

Trying to pull it up just results in ripping off a little bit leaving some of it glued 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. I am going to be laying down peel and stick vinyl tiles down over wood floors but first i need to get the padding up off the floor. The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor.

The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. This video and description contains affiliate lin. Though incredibly effective this specialty glue is also notorious because it leaves behind sticky residue that is hard to remove with traditional removal methods. Step 2 use boiling water.

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. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. Before moving forward take note.

Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad. In the end the manual method for removing carpet glue may be your best bet. The pad however has been glued down and it isn t your normal pad.