Easy Way To Remove Carpet Tack Strips

Those tacks are beyond sharp.

Easy way to remove carpet tack strips.

Press the pry bar in order to begin lifting the tack strip. With this method you ll never break a strip unless the wood is rotten. Repeat until the tack strip is completely removed and discard safely in a trash receptacle so no one is injured. A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor.

Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. Continue like this until you have freed the entire strip. Then tap it with a hammer until the tack strip pops up. Carpet tack strips can usually remain in place but look for rust rot or other damage.

At those points slide a pry bar under the tack strip. Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. If you are pulling up carpet from stairs.

Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. 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. Joe is working on a carpet removal project now he is ready to. Reinsert them beside the next nail on the tack strip and pop that nail out the same way.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. 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. You are likely to find that the tack strip is nailed to the floor about every 6 inches. Slide the pry bar down to the next nail and repeat until the strip is loose from the floor.

Positioning the pry bar at each nail and lifting upward will loosen it from the floor for easy removal. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Once the carpet is removed locate the nails which attach the tack strips to the floor. Discard the old tack strip in a heavy duty trash.

Begin at the top of the stairs.