Easy Way To Remove Carpet Tack Strips

With this method you ll never break a strip unless the wood is rotten.

Easy way to remove carpet tack strips. Oh and do be careful when removing carpet tack strips. Repeat until the tack strip is completely removed and discard safely in a trash receptacle so no one is injured. Carpet tack strips can usually remain in place but look for rust rot or other damage. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.

You are likely to find that the tack strip is nailed to the floor about every 6 inches. To easily remove the carpet tack strip move the pry bar near a nail and pry up while gently lifting the end of the tack strip with your other hand. Slide the pry bar down to the next nail and repeat until the strip is loose from the floor. Begin at the top of the stairs.

Continue like this until you have freed the entire strip. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Those tacks are beyond sharp. Once the carpet is removed locate the nails which attach the tack strips to the floor.

Hook a crowbar into the slit and pull the corner of the carpet off. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. At those points slide a pry bar under the tack strip. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.

If you are pulling up carpet from stairs. Reinsert them beside the next nail on the tack strip and pop that nail out the same way. Then tap it with a hammer until the tack strip pops up. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips.

Joe is working on a carpet removal project now he is ready to. Press the pry bar in order to begin lifting the tack strip. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. Cut a slit in the carpet about 6 inches away from a corner using a carpet knife which is a utility knife with a curved blade.

A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor.