Tear Up Carpet Conrete

Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers.

Tear up carpet conrete.

Use a utility. Cut the carpet into sections so it is easier to carry out of the room if you are throwing it out. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. This is my first time removing carpet from a concrete basement floor.

This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers.

Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Tips on how to stain concrete floors. Work on one. Consider what you are going to do with the carpet.

On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. How to remove carpet from a concrete floor step 1. It s not as easy as just pulling up the carpet.

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. Are you throwing it away or are you going to salvage it. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Tack strips hold the carpet in place an.

To remove them use a floor scraper.