Removing Glued Down Kitchen Carpet

In fact it does its very best to remain firmly in place.

Removing glued down kitchen carpet.

Did you say carpeting in your kitchen. Before moving forward take note. Yes they used glue to put the carpet down. Use the flat end of the pry bar to chip away at the glue underneath the vinyl.

It does not come up easily. Use pliers to pull padding staples when removing carpet from stairs. See my full disclosure here. How to pull up glue down indoor outdoor carpeting made easy.

On a concrete floor the carpet pad is often glued into place. Carpet adhesives manufactured in the 1980s or earlier may contain asbestos a known. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue. Tough spots might require a power oscillating tool.

Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. Once you get all the glued down sections removed it s time to deal with the glued perimeter. In this case use a floor scraper to remove the pieces of padding that remain stuck to 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.

This post contains affiliate links. This video and description contains affiliate lin. Once you ve removed as much as you can with the prybar use the 5 in 1 tool or any floor scraper tool to scrape off the rest of the adhesive. As we removed the carpet the rubber backing detached from the carpeting and is still glued to the concrete floor.

Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. First we used a utility knife to cut the carpet into strips and peeled each strip of carpet up. How to remove glued down carpet. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later.

Our landlord has given us permission to remove the rubber backed carpet in our basement. It turns out it is very difficult to remove glued down carpet. In the end the manual method for removing carpet glue may be your best bet. 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.

The room is 15 feet by 28 feet and the carpet was a direct glue down. Step 2 use boiling water.