Taking Up Old Carpet

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

Taking up old carpet.

Prep before pulling up carpet. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. The right carpet is about more than color. Before you start ripping up the carpet clear all furniture from the room.

Browsing carpet samples at your local home improvement center is a great. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Cut carpet into easy to handle. 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. How to remove old carpet 1. Some older houses have. Lift up and remove the strip.

Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. 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. 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.

Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. 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.

Tack strips are metal nails that line the perimeter of your walls to hold the carpet. Removing the tack strip wedge the pry bar beneath the tack strip near each nail that holds it to the subfloor. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Decide the final goal of your remodeling.

Use a utility.