Removing Glued Carpet Pad

The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later.

Removing glued carpet pad.

Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. To use the scraper attachment insert the blade into your reciprocating saw and lock it in place. You may want to remove the carpet padding yourself but if you re hiring a professional to work on your wood floor it may be better to have that person remove the padding as well.

The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor. Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue. A 2 to 4 wide blade should be appropriate for removing carpet glue.

Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours. As i shared a few weeks ago when we began pulling up the carpet in our family room we were met with a most unfortunate surprise under the carpet and carpet pad was another layer of carpet. Step 2 use boiling water. Throw away the debris.

Pulling up the carpet and scraping underneath with a paint scraper to beak the glue bond is tedious work and wetting the carpet to loosen the adhesive may cause it to break into pieces.