Diy Pull Up Old Carpet

Today i m going to teach ya ll how to pull up carpet and refinish those gorgeous wood floors that may be hiding under your carpet.

Diy pull up old carpet.

Pulling up old carpet for the new laminate floor. If the goal is simply to get the old carpet out of the way protect your hands with heavy gloves and use a sharp utility knife to cut a border around the entire area about four or five inches away from the walls. Thus you shouldn t have to remove the baseboards when taking out smelly carpet. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand.

Figure out how you will dispose of the old carpet before you pull it up. After you ve rolled up the old carpeting and removed it from the room you ll finally get a good look at the subfloor and any surprise damage that the carpet may have been hiding. Start at one corner of your room and try to pull up the carpet. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.

Roll up the strips then carry them out of the space image 2. Let s be real kids are hard on carpet. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. Of carpet and cut it into easy to handle strips photo 1.

Most of the time old carpet is not underneath the baseboards baseboards are the trim pieces that sit at the bottom of your wall. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Fold back about 3 ft.

Pull up each 4 foot strip loosening it from the remaining carpet image 1. Pulling up carpet depends on the reason the carpet needs to be pulled up. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. Then just lift out the center section pull up the.

You can see part 2 stain seal reveal here. This is a project i ve wanted to tackle for a while and recently got the go ahead from our landlords. Carpet may cost money to dispose of so shop around. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.