Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.
Taking up carpet grippers.
Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room.
Of carpet and cut it into easy to handle strips photo 1.
I used a smaller chisel but i could have used anything of similar size and solid such as a screwdriver or piece of wood or metal.
A chisel with a fine sharp end that could get under the carpet gripper.
Carpet is installed using glue or tack strips.
A carpet gripper also referred to as a tack strip is a long strip of wood about 1 4 inch thick and 1 inch wide that contains several sharp pins or tacks.
How to install carpet grippers.
Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips.
If you are trying to salvage the floor underneath make sure you do not cut grooves in the floor with the knife.
Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.
Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.
I did some work under our carpet and wound up pulling up too much and had to.
Another item to use as a fulcrum under the first chisel.
Here is how i removed the carpet grippers in one room.
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.
In most cases glue down carpet cannot be lifted up without damaging the backing or tearing the carpet.
One way to do this is to lift the carpet away from the floor as you cut.
Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand.
Carpet is stretched over tack strips using a kick stretcher or a power stretcher so if you pull the whole carpet it you risk losing that stretch.
Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing.
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How to lift a carpet up without damaging it.
Fold back about 3 ft.
To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.
It depends on how much of the carpet you re going to pull up.