Removing Glued Carpet Padding Hardwood Floors

Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane.

Removing glued carpet padding hardwood floors.

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. 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. I saw a tip somewhere to use resolve the carpet cleaner but not to clean the carpet but get the padding residue up from a hardwood floor. Here are several tips to remove carpet padding to avoid damaging your flooring.

The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor. Start with a scraping tool. Carpet removal often results in carpet padding stuck to the hardwood flooring. When you remove carpeting only to find hardwood floors underneath it can feel like you ve hit the jackpot right up until you notice the unsightly residual carpet glue.

Over several years it might have bonded to the polyurethane. The padding was not glued down but fused with the floor anyway. Flooring experts informed our team of several common causes. It takes some elbow grease but it worked.

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