Easy Way To Remove Carpet Tack Strips

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.

Easy way to remove carpet tack strips.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Those tacks are beyond sharp. Then tap it with a hammer until the tack strip pops up. Continue like this until you have freed the entire strip.

Repeat until the tack strip is completely removed and discard safely in a trash receptacle so no one is injured. Joe is working on a carpet removal project now he is ready to. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Oh and do be careful when removing carpet tack strips.

Cut a slit in the carpet about 6 inches away from a corner using a carpet knife which is a utility knife with a curved blade. A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor. To easily remove the carpet tack strip move the pry bar near a nail and pry up while gently lifting the end of the tack strip with your other hand. Its not that hard with these tips from clay king from aaa flood drying with 28.

Positioning the pry bar at each nail and lifting upward will loosen it from the floor for easy removal. If you are pulling up carpet from stairs. Discard the old tack strip in a heavy duty trash. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.

Once the carpet is removed locate the nails which attach the tack strips to the floor. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. You are likely to find that the tack strip is nailed to the floor about every 6 inches. Carpet tack strips can usually remain in place but look for rust rot or other damage.

Press the pry bar in order to begin lifting the tack strip. Begin at the top of the stairs. Reinsert them beside the next nail on the tack strip and pop that nail out the same way. At those points slide a pry bar under the tack strip.

Slide the pry bar down to the next nail and repeat until the strip is loose from the floor.