How To Pull Up Old Carpet

Figure out how you will dispose of the old carpet before you pull it up.

How to pull up old carpet. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Staple cables that can be safely run under carpeting to the floor to hide them. Decide the final goal of your remodeling. Do you want to save what s underneath the carpet.

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Carpet may cost money to dispose of so shop. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Use a utility.

Move the furniture out of the area where you. Some older houses have. Use pliers to tightly grab the carpet. Alongside the tack strip.

When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. Just staple the wire every 3 to 4 ft. Carpet pads are typically installed with either staples or glue. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.

Pull up enough to get a firm hold or to hook a prybar underneath and the pull the carpet off the tackless strip. You can keep phone lines speaker wire and coaxial cable out of sight and safe from the vacuum cleaner by installing them before the new carpet goes in. If yours used the latter you ll have a fair amount of scraping ahead of you to get the old glue off. Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall.