Tear Up Carpet Concrete

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Tear up carpet concrete.

Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. You ll love your new cat room. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet.

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. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.

The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers. When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers.

Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor. 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.

Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand. Cut the carpet into sections so it is easier to carry out of the room if you are throwing it out.

July 17 2012 at 12 20 am. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. All my best patti p.

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