Removing Carpet Underlay Staples

Traxx 5418d staples are recommended for use with the tx 5418 txf 5418d.

Removing carpet underlay staples.

I am pulling up old carpet and would like to polish the 100 year old boards. Subflooring and shovels flooring installers don t use a cat s paw to remove staples after old carpet has been removed there are just too many of them. You may want to remove the carpet padding yourself but if you re hiring a professional to work on your wood floor it may be better to have that person remove the padding as well. If there are staples in the underlayment they might pull loose as.

It also shows how to remove carpet pad staples easy https. Uses all 5418 staples. And 80 of them had a piece of the foam stuck under it that had ripped off. As of now i m trying to remove every last one of them but it is tedious work.

Remove this small piece of carpet and then pull up on the larger section. Pulling up carpet and underlay was easy. The question is did i have to. Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor.

The subfloor was attached using a lot of staples. I went through and manually pulled every one of those staples. This video will show you the fastest way to remove staples from your floor when taking out carpet. The underlay is stapled in about 1000 places.

Use a prybar to get beneath each section and pull it up from the subfloor. Cut the underlayment into 2 or 3 foot square sections. If it won t come up then cut a small 6 inch by 6 inch square in the corner with your utility knife. Removing tack strips was ok with a pry bar.

Start at one corner of your room and try to pull up the carpet. Hold the tool at about a 45 degree angle and slide it forcefully along the floor. Look for traxx carpet flooring staples in the blue box. Products from this video.

Instead they ve developed a smart efficient way to remove staples with a shovel or long handled floor scraper. I m installing a engineered bamboo floating floor. Every staple i try to remove with pliers keeps breaking and i cannot get the staple out. Your carpet is held down with tack strips.

But every single staple from the underlay was left. I m removing the vinyl kicten floor and sub floor to get everything the same level.