Removing Carpet Underlay From Hardwood Floors

Its easiest to pull a section off of the tack strips and then cut the carpet into long thin strips.

Removing carpet underlay from hardwood floors.

Step 2 moisten an area of foam with a solvent that you ve tested and found to be safe for the floor finish. Scrape off as much of the carpet backing from the floor as you can using a plastic paint scraper. You can dig into the foam without fear because the plastic isn t hard enough to scratch the floor finish. Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor.

I bought a house about 3 weeks ago and it has hardwood floor in the living room when i tried removing the old carpet it left padding residue and marks on the floor. Dissolve the padding with chemical cleaning solvents such as an odorless mineral spirit that works like a paint thinner. If you re watching this because you need to remove carpet staples from a hardwood floor it sucks to be you but hopefully this video saves you some pain and. Remove carpet more than likely you ll have to use your knife to cut the carpet into strips as you pull it off the floor.

Scrape with a metal tool but with care not to scratch the wood. We scraped by hand from a standing position with a long handled scraper. When we pulled the old carpet and padding which was a blue yellow mixed color from our floors we found a thin layer of what apparently was black foam from the carpet before.