Taking Up Carpet Installing Wood Flooring

Replace a carpet with hardwood flooring.

Taking up carpet installing wood flooring.

As it s often the case that previous homeowners could only afford to install hardwood floors. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Installing hardwood floors can cost between 9 and 12 per square foot compared with about 3 to 5 per square foot for carpet so some homeowners opt to install hardwood floors only in some. Adding on to your cost to install hardwood flooring is another 3 to 14 per square foot for the wood too.

Take pliers and peel back the carpet pull up the padding and see if you have nice wood floors. Even if you are hiring someone to install new flooring you may want to pull out the old carpet yourself. The first thing you re going to need to do is remove all of the installation materials that were used to help install the carpet on top of your hardwood. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.

Labor rates total 4 25 to 9 25 per square foot to remove the old carpet and replace it with hardwood flooring. Removing old carpet is the first step toward having something besides old stained carpet as your floor. How to take out carpet. Carpet padding strips staples nails glue.

The basic rule of thumb with removing the carpet for a hardwood installation is that you just go in reverse to take things back to the original subfloor. Of carpet and cut it into easy to handle strips photo 1. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. To install engineered hardwood you will need to follow the preparation steps as outlined above in the solid hardwood instructions.

Fold back about 3 ft. Find out which flooring material wins the battle of carpet vs. Engineered planks have a greater chance of color variation so open multiple boxes before getting started to mix up boards and avoid color blocked sections.