Taking Up Carpet Without Harming The Tackboard

Using a sharp stanley knife cut the carpet and underlay into strips start the end furthest from the door and as you pull up the strips move your furniture and clutter onto the clear floor and work through the room.

Taking up carpet without harming the tackboard.

We take up the carpet dispose of it. But carpet installed with tack strips can be lifted up and saved in whole or in parts for. Put down some rugs. The installer who will make 2 00 4 00 per yard for installing your carpet based on the type of carpet has to pay for the tack strip himself.

Next it s important to cut the carpet into manageable sections by cutting into three or four foot sections. Has anyone done this and was it more nightmarish than you d expected. We have a short hallway and two smallish reception rooms and want to take up the carpet and have wood floors in these areas. This video is unavailable.

Previous step next step. Clean and possibly sand by hand wood floors. No need to clear the room of furniture and clutter at this stage. Any corner is the ideal place to start.

Sometimes you ll need your pry bar to pull the carpet off of the nails that hold it down. Once the carpet is out of the way pull up the underlay. Chances are the carpet will probably get stuck at places on the flooring. You can pull carpet up off the tacking strip to do some work.

In most cases glue down carpet cannot be lifted up without damaging the backing or tearing the carpet. Carpet is stretched over tack strips using a kick stretcher or a power stretcher so if you pull the whole carpet it you risk losing that stretch. As the wife of an installer i can tell you that if they are not rotten you should leave them down. It depends on how much of the carpet you re going to pull up.

Start in the corners pulling the carpet off of the tack strips that are located along the edges. If they are falling apart from moisture pull them up. This is how to take up the old carpet. Once the carpet is all up get a couple of people to help you take it out.

Pull the carpet up slowly not making any sudden moves. Professionals will use pliers to lift a section of the carpet shown above then wiggle or shake it aggressively. To my mind what happens is. It s really the same process as removing the carpet although it should be easier to start.