Taking Out Carpet Tack Strip

With a few common tools you can have the job finished in an afternoon and enjoy your new hardwood floor.

Taking out carpet tack strip.

Remove worn carpet pad and tack strips. Long carpet tack strip for wood subfloors 100 pack. Remove all debris from home and dispose of legally. Includes planning equipment and material acquisition area preparation and protection setup and cleanup.

The crowbar is great for the tack strips. Make sure you have gloves and eye protection because it can pop up and puncture skin. Wedge a flat bar pry bar underneath of the tack strip the strip with nails coming through to the top. Out of stock online.

Cut carpet into haul able pieces. I just flung that thing under them and pushed down. Remove the tack strips if desired. Make sure you use eyewear as well because a few times i was hit in the face with small pieces of junk.

After pulling up your carpet you will most likely have tack strips left around the perimeter of the room. Wide x 4 ft. This equals 48 to 72 per hour because it usually takes 3 hours to remove carpet from a 12 by 12 foot room including extracting the tack strips and staples. Its not that hard with these tips from clay king from aaa flood drying with 28.

Step 1 start in a doorway or corner of the room. Halex poplar 7 8 in. You ll be relieved to learn it s a straightforward task to remove carpet tack strips from hardwood floors. Set your store to see local availability view similar in stock.

A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor. Wide x 4 ft. Best seller halex poplar 1 in. The average hourly rate is 60 per hour so expect to pay 180 in total for a contractor to remove and dispose of 12 by.

Removing these strips that once held your carpet is the most tedious part of carpet removal. Detach carpet from tack strip and adjacent surfaces. It took me 3 days to get the old carpet tack strips and padding out. Carpet removal costs 1 to 1 50 per square foot including labor cleanup and waste disposal.