Tear Up Carpet Concrete

Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet.

Tear up carpet concrete.

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. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor. Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand.

The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet. July 17 2012 at 12 20 am. To remove them use a floor scraper.

This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Work on one. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. This includes removing carpe.

Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. So go easy on filling the holes where the concrete will pull up from carpet tacking sand with an electric sander when dry and then stain. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.

You ll love your new cat room. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. All my best patti p.

When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. Tips on how to stain concrete floors. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an.

Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room.