Removing Glued Down Carpet Padding

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Removing glued down carpet padding.

I am going to be laying down peel and stick vinyl tiles down over wood floors but first i need to get the padding up off the floor. It s the same thickness give or take but more like moderately dense foam. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue.

The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor. Going to tear up the carpet pad and put in hardwood. Carpet adhesives manufactured in the 1980s or earlier may contain asbestos a known. Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane.

Carpet glue is an incredibly strong adhesive designed to fix rolls of carpet to concrete floors. Before moving forward take note. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. Here are several tips to remove carpet padding to avoid damaging your flooring.

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. 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. In the end the manual method for removing carpet glue may be your best bet.

Throw away the debris. Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad. The pad however has been glued down and it isn t your normal pad. This video and description contains affiliate lin.

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. Step 2 use boiling water. Though incredibly effective this specialty glue is also notorious because it leaves behind sticky residue that is hard to remove with traditional removal methods.