Remove Carpet Tack Without Damaging Concrete

The trick was to pull them out vertically.

Remove carpet tack without damaging concrete.

Taking a carpet tack strip off of a concrete floor will be somewhat different from taking it off of a hardwood floor especially if you plan on keeping and restoring the hardwood floor. I lifted nailed some carpet tack strips this way using a small pry bar. How to remove tack strips without chipping concrete tags. I love using the wonder tool and these pliers for this job.

This is me and my father removing a tack strip without damage to the concrete. Flooring stairs i want to replace carpet with ceramic tile but i can t seem to remove the tack strip nails without gouging out areas of. Its not that hard with these tips from clay king from aaa flood drying with 28. A lot of times i can just use the pliers to get the staples up but some staples are so close to the floor that i need to use the wonder tool to get them started.

A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor. Once you have all of the tack strips up it is time to remove any staples on the floor from the carpet pad. Since these tack strips are nailed into the floor there will be small holes in the floor when you are done but it is important to cause as little damage as possible in the process. If you decide to remove the carpet you must also pry up the tack strips which are held in place with nails.

I used a rubber mallet no steel hammers. The strips are nailed to the. When hammering in the other hammer tap lightly and make sure not to move the. Carpet tack strips are wooden boards installed around the perimeter of a floor to hold carpet in place.

They ll damage the pry bar to get the end of the bar underneath some of the strips. Carpet tack strips are pieces of wood with small sharp nails sticking out of them that grip a carpet and hold it in place.