Tear Up Carpet Over Hardwood

Some older houses have ugly old carpet right over hardwood floors.

Tear up carpet over hardwood.

How to replace carpet with hardwood. Carpet is a flexible finish material that can be installed on floors throughout the home. Either way it may be time to tear up the carpet and restore the hardwood flooring. Of carpet and cut it into easy to handle strips photo 1.

Be aware the project generates quite a bit of dust and could spread out over two or three days but your ultimate reward will be a great looking wood floor that enhances the beauty of your home. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. You just flip it over. This should pull the carpet up.

Pull up a corner of the carpet and see what s underneath if you haven t yet. Fold back about 3 ft. Do you want to save what s underneath the carpet. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.

Over time carpet can suffer color reduction as well as wear and tear. Use the pliers to pull up one side of the cut carpet. Most blades are designed to be used twice. Utility knife for cutting up carpet and or padding into more manageable size strips for rolling up and removing from the room.

Planning to remove carpet over hardwood floors. While planning to uncover the original hardwood floor i pulled back the corner of the carpet to find that the padding was stapled down and not glued to the floor. If you are going to refinish and show off that hardwood floor under your carpet but you better remove the carpet without marring the floor in the process. If so you may wish to leave the tack strips in place if they are in good condition.