Tearing Out Carpet Tips

Pulling up carpet depends on the reason the carpet needs to be pulled up.

Tearing out carpet tips.

Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Fold back about 3 ft. Use a sharp new blade in your utility knife and be careful not to slice into baseboard or walls. If the goal is simply to get the old carpet out of the way protect your hands with heavy gloves and use a sharp utility knife to cut a border around the entire area about four or five inches away from the walls.

Carpet is much easier to cut from the back than from the front. Of carpet and cut it into easy to handle strips photo 1. Also make sure that they know not to charge you for the time to tear out the carpet or move furniture. Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out.

If you want the installers of the new floor to haul away the old carpet make sure they know in advance and figure it into your price. Tearing out old carpet is a strenuous task but many homeowners still choose to pull up carpet themselves in order to save big bucks on renovation costs. Carpet removal takes 30 60 minutes while pad removal is another 30 45 minutes depending on the size of your room. If you re considering this option yourself we wrote this guide to walk you through the process with professional advice from the national wood flooring association.