Tearing Up Carpet Tips

The right carpet is about more than color.

Tearing up carpet tips.

Don t jerk too hard or you may rip the carpet and have to start over. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great.

Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Touch up paint on baseboards and around the. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.

Use a utility. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. When you ve selected your starting point grip onto the carpet with your pliers and tug upward firmly.

Once you get a good chunk of it up you can use your hands to start pulling backward. Level the sub floor and replace any water damaged wood as needed. Apply a stain blocking primer to prevent old stains from coming up through new carpet. Drive long wood screws into the sub floor and through to floor joists anywhere the floor squeaks.

5 things to know before ripping up carpet yourself 1. Before you start ripping up the carpet clear all furniture from the room. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Remove entry or closet doors that might interfere with your work.

You might also consider vacuuming the carpet one last time to minimize the mess during removal.