Removing Glued Down Carpet Underlay

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.

Removing glued down carpet underlay. Easiest way to remove glued foam carpet backing from floors. Hello i am going to be laying down peel and stick vinyl tiles down over wood floors but first i need to get the padding up off the floor. Carpet installers use strong mastic that doesn t deteriorate when they glue down carpets and they often use more than is really needed both of which spell bad news for you when you want to remove the carpet. See my full disclosure here.

Discussion in general discussion started by thebigcheese 14 jul 2009. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. In fact it does its very best to remain firmly in place. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper.

It turns out it is very difficult to remove glued down carpet. Removing glued down crapet underlay. Had we realised the floor sander was so effective in removing the underlay we would not have bothered with so much scraping at first. Step 2 use boiling water.

How to remove glued down carpet. It does not come up easily. Some carpenters glue the underlay down making it a little more difficult but not impossible to remove from the subfloor. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue.

First we used a utility knife to cut the carpet into strips and peeled each strip of carpet up. Show only op 14 jul 2009 at 16 40 1. We removed carpet underlay and glue from a timber floor by scraping and then sanding with the floor sander and a makita orbital sander. 6 sep 2005 posts.

The carpet that was in the house was very old and underneath all that was very old vinyl tiles. Hi folks some. When replacing carpet or exposing the hardwood floor that is underneath the carpeting the rubber underlay will require removal. Removing glued down carpet underlay.