Easy Way To Remove Carpet Tack Strips

Oh and do be careful when removing carpet tack strips.

Easy way to remove carpet tack strips.

Carpet tack strips can usually remain in place but look for rust rot or other damage. Reinsert them beside the next nail on the tack strip and pop that nail out the same way. Joe is working on a carpet removal project now he is ready to. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.

If you are pulling up carpet from stairs. Hook a crowbar into the slit and pull the corner of the carpet off. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. Then tap it with a hammer until the tack strip pops up.

Continue like this until you have freed the entire strip. Slide the pry bar down to the next nail and repeat until the strip is loose from the floor. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. At those points slide a pry bar under the tack strip.

Discard the old tack strip in a heavy duty trash. Positioning the pry bar at each nail and lifting upward will loosen it from the floor for easy removal. 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. Press the pry bar in order to begin lifting the tack strip.

Its not that hard with these tips from clay king from aaa flood drying with 28. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Repeat until the tack strip is completely removed and discard safely in a trash receptacle so no one is injured. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room.

With this method you ll never break a strip unless the wood is rotten. Once the carpet is removed locate the nails which attach the tack strips to the floor. You are likely to find that the tack strip is nailed to the floor about every 6 inches. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.

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