Remove Carpet Tack Strips From Hardwood

Repairing carpet strip holes in a wood floor.

Remove carpet tack strips from hardwood.

Tack strips carpet. Getting rid of tack strips. I ripped my carpet out which revealed lots of tack boards attached to the concrete slab underneath the carpet. After pulling up your carpet you will most likely have tack strips left around the perimeter of the room.

For safety place each strip in a box or trash can as you remove it. Sweep the entire floor as soon as the tack strips have all been removed. Joe is working on a carpet removal project now he is ready to. Removing old carpeting may be necessary to save labor costs if you are having your carpet replaced.

If you ve pulled up an old carpet to reveal a hardwood floor there s a good chance the floor will need some level of repair. This will avoid damage to the hardwood floors from grit and debris trapped beneath the tack strips. Using the curved edge of a pry bar line it up with the first brad nail and gently slide it under the tack strip. Since these tack strips are nailed into the floor there will be small holes in the floor when you are done but it is important to cause as little damage as possible in the process.

You may also need to remove your carpet if you have hardwood floors underneath that you would like to refinish. Typically there are three evenly spaced brad nails which are used to hold every three feet of tack strip in place keeping this in mind you want to start from the corner of a room and work your way inwards. The tackboards run continuously in four rooms 12 tacks per foot of board and the tack heads seem to have been embedded into the concrete when the house was built the pointed heads are up instead of down in the concrete.