Water seems safe but wood flooring manufacturers are unequivocal about avoiding water when cleaning hardwood floors because of the long term damage it can do to the wood.
Removing old carpet from hardwood floors.
It s safest to make your initial cut right where the carpet strips have to be.
Carpet removal often results in carpet padding stuck to the hardwood flooring.
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.
If you are going to refinish and show off that hardwood floor under your carpet but you better remove the carpet without marring the floor in the process.
Removing old sticky gooey carpet padding from a wood floor.
How to remove the old carpet.
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.
Learning how to clean old hardwood floors after removing carpet is easier than most people think it simply takes a little bit more time than a traditional floor clean.
It had fused with the beautiful oak hardwood floors.
How to remove old carpet foam rubber from wood floors by chris deziel.
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.