Easy Way To Remove Carpet Strips

You will see floor nails at regular intervals along the strips.

Easy way to remove carpet strips. This video will show you the fastest way to remove staples from your floor when taking out carpet. Use a utility knife or carpet knife to slice the carpet into manageable strips and roll the strips up as you go. Its not that hard with these tips from clay king from aaa flood drying with 28. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.

Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Joe is working on a carpet removal project now he is ready to. With this method you ll never break a strip unless the wood is rotten.

A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor. Oh and do be careful when removing carpet tack strips. Removing these strips that once held your carpet is the most tedious part of carpet removal. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.

Step 1 position the pry bar as close to the bottom edge of the tack strip as possible. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. It also shows how to remove carpet pad staples easy https. Which is difficult because of the tacks.

Instead of trying to pry out each nail from the top. To easily remove the carpet tack strip move the pry bar near a nail and pry up while gently lifting the end of the tack strip with your other hand. The trick is to use a cat s paw prybar and to remove all the nails holding each tackless strip. I find this one of the easiest way to remove carpet from stairs and at the same time remove 90 of the staples.

If you are trying to salvage the floor underneath make sure you do not cut grooves in the floor with the knife.