Tearing Up Carpet

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

Tearing up carpet.

Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Carpet may cost money to dispose of so shop. Do you want to save what s underneath the carpet. The right carpet is about more than color.

How to tear up carpet restore hardwood flooring step 1. Start at one corner of your room and try to pull up the carpet. Use a utility. Some older houses have.

Figure out how you will dispose of the old carpet before you pull it up. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Move the furniture out of the area where you.

Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Decide the final goal of your remodeling. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Remove the carpet tacking strips which may be nailed or stapled to the hardwood floor.

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great. Remove this small piece of carpet and then pull upon the larger section. Your carpet is held down with tack strips.

If it won t come up then cut a small 6 inch by 6 inch square in the corner with your utility knife. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall.