Removing Glued Carpet Pad

Step 2 use boiling water.

Removing glued carpet pad.

Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad. Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane. 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. As i shared a few weeks ago when we began pulling up the carpet in our family room we were met with a most unfortunate surprise under the carpet and carpet pad was another layer of carpet.

Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. Carpet installers use strong mastic that doesn t deteriorate when they glue down carpets and they often use more than is really needed both of which spell bad news for you when you want to remove the carpet. Pulling up the carpet and scraping underneath with a paint scraper to beak the glue bond is tedious work and wetting the carpet to loosen the adhesive may cause it to break into pieces.

Throw away the debris. Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours. A 2 to 4 wide blade should be appropriate for removing carpet glue. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue.

The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor.