Removing Carpet Underlay From Hardwood Floors

We scraped by hand from a standing position with a long handled scraper.

Removing carpet underlay from hardwood floors.

Its easiest to pull a section off of the tack strips and then cut the carpet into long thin strips. Remove carpet more than likely you ll have to use your knife to cut the carpet into strips as you pull it off the floor. Step 2 moisten an area of foam with a solvent that you ve tested and found to be safe for the floor finish. You can dig into the foam without fear because the plastic isn t hard enough to scratch the floor finish.

When we pulled the old carpet and padding which was a blue yellow mixed color from our floors we found a thin layer of what apparently was black foam from the carpet before. 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. 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. Scrape with a metal tool but with care not to scratch the wood.

Scrape off as much of the carpet backing from the floor as you can using a plastic paint scraper. It had fused with the beautiful oak hardwood floors. Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor.