Removing Glued Carpet Pad

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.

Removing glued carpet pad. As i shared a few weeks ago when we began pulling up the carpet in our family room we were met with a most unfortunate surprise under the carpet and carpet pad was another layer of carpet. Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours. To use the scraper attachment insert the blade into your reciprocating saw and lock it in place. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue.

The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor. Pulling up the carpet and scraping underneath with a paint scraper to beak the glue bond is tedious work and wetting the carpet to loosen the adhesive may cause it to break into pieces. Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane. Sharing a tutorial on the most effective way to remove glued down carpet after testing five different methods.

A 2 to 4 wide blade should be appropriate for removing carpet glue. Step 2 use boiling water. Throw away the debris. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper.

The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later.