Tear Up Carpet Conrete

Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it.

Tear up carpet conrete.

To remove them use a floor scraper. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor.

Remove the 3 foot wide carpet sections from the tack strips by shaking the carpet in a back and forth motion while pulling it up from the surface of the floor. Use a utility. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Work on one.

Tips on how to stain concrete floors. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet.

Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall.

Consider what you are going to do with the carpet. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.

When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers.