Easy Way To Remove Carpet Tack Strips

Oh and do be careful when removing carpet tack strips.

Easy way to remove carpet tack strips.

Joe is working on a carpet removal project now he is ready to. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Carpet tack strips can usually remain in place but look for rust rot or other damage. Begin at the top of the stairs.

Discard the old tack strip in a heavy duty trash. Repeat until the tack strip is completely removed and discard safely in a trash receptacle so no one is injured. Slide the pry bar down to the next nail and repeat until the strip is loose from the floor. A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor.

Then tap it with a hammer until the tack strip pops up. At those points slide a pry bar under the tack strip. Press the pry bar in order to begin lifting the tack strip. Positioning the pry bar at each nail and lifting upward will loosen it from the floor for easy removal.

Continue like this until you have freed the entire strip. 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. Its not that hard with these tips from clay king from aaa flood drying with 28. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room.

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. 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. If you are pulling up carpet from stairs. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. With this method you ll never break a strip unless the wood is rotten. Those tacks are beyond sharp. You are likely to find that the tack strip is nailed to the floor about every 6 inches.

Hook a crowbar into the slit and pull the corner of the carpet off.