Removing Old Carpet Padding From Hardwood Floors

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.

Removing old carpet padding from hardwood floors.

Dissolve the padding with chemical cleaning solvents such as an odorless. Here are several tips to remove carpet padding to avoid damaging your flooring. 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.

Flooring pros told our team about several methods they use to remove stuck padding before refinishing a wood floor. 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. It had fused with the beautiful oak hardwood floors. Removing old sticky gooey carpet padding from a wood floor.

Q imported from our old site face lift floors. Residue from the carpet pad. 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. The residue from the carpet underpad is sticking to the hardwood floor all over the place.

We scraped by hand from a standing position with a long handled scraper. I am ripping up all the carpet in my home which has covered oak hardwood for about 30 years.