Tear Up Carpet Conrete

This includes removing carpe.

Tear up carpet conrete.

Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers.

Remove the 3 foot wide carpet sections from the tack strips by shaking the carpet in a back and forth motion while pulling it up from the surface of the floor. To remove them use a floor scraper. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.

Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Work on one.

Use a utility. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet.

When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. Tips on how to stain concrete floors. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers.

Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out.