Removing Carpet Padding From Hardwood Floors

The hardwood looked fine but a different kind of rubbery carpet padding had been used in the room.

Removing carpet padding from hardwood floors. With your hand pull them as much as you can to take them off the floor. And instead of coming right up most of the padding was cemented to the floor. 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. In order to have that beautiful hardwood floor you need to keep in mind that there are two types of glues that are used when putting down a carpet general carpet adhesive and tar based glue.

Go to the corner of the floor area where the carpet is. 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. At first i tried to pick off the padding that could come off easily. I pulled up wall to wall carpet in a bedroom and the entrance area has blotches of film from padding what is the best way to clean this.

You may want to remove the carpet padding yourself but if you re hiring a professional to work on your wood floor it may be better to have that person remove the padding as well. You can start pulling at the tack strip at the bottom and remove the whole foam padding of the carpet. Mineral spirits and elbow grease should help to soften it up. After removing the foam padding you must dispose them.

Film from carpet padding. This needs to be removed. Then start pulling the foam padding off of the floor.