Taking Up Old Carpet

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Taking up old carpet.

Some older houses have. Figure out how you will dispose of the old carpet before you pull it up. 5 things to know before ripping up carpet yourself 1. The right carpet is about more than color.

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Removing the tack strip wedge the pry bar beneath the tack strip near each nail that holds it to the subfloor. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Move the furniture out of the area where you.

Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. When pulling carpet off of tack strip on stairs make sure your weight is forward to prevent falling backwards if the carpet comes up easier than expect. Tack strips are metal nails that line the perimeter of your walls to hold the carpet. How to remove old carpet 1.

Detach carpet from tack strips. Do you want to save what s underneath the carpet. Use a utility. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.

Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall.

Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Lift up and remove the strip. Decide the final goal of your remodeling. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips.

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