Removing Old Carpet From Hardwood Floors

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.

Removing old carpet from hardwood floors.

How to remove old carpet foam rubber from wood floors by chris deziel. It s safest to make your initial cut right where the carpet strips have to be. It had fused with the beautiful oak hardwood floors. Removing old sticky gooey carpet padding from a wood floor.

Water seems safe but wood flooring manufacturers are unequivocal about avoiding water when cleaning hardwood floors because of the long term damage it can do to the wood. Carpet removal often results in carpet padding stuck to the hardwood flooring. How to remove the old carpet. Hello 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.

We scraped by hand from a standing position with a long handled scraper. Learning how to clean old hardwood floors after removing carpet is easier than most people think it simply takes a little bit more time than a traditional floor clean. Well there are a lot of ways to remove carpet padding on your wood floors but today and i m going to tell you the easiest way to do it.