What is the easiest way to remove a carpet from my bedroom?
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you should remove the trim first. Then you can cut the carpet in sections with an exacto knife to be able to get to the wood pieces that the carpet is pulled to. Best to remove that with a tool that is made to fit underneath and able to pull up on the little nails. It is not easy unless it was improperly laid carpet. It is not hard either, just challenging at times.
You don't have to remove trim. Just cut a long line across the room, then start pulling, roll up, tape and remove. I used a pry crowbar with a hook (got the pry crowbar and xacto knife at dollar tree), and a hammer, to push the crowbar under the tac nail bar.... then leverage it loose. You might need a good pair of pliers to pull the extra staple out. Repeat for the underpad.
Cut it in sections if you are not going to recycle it. It is easier to carry out in small sections. Pull up the underlay. That's the easy part! Then you need a pry bar (small) to pry up the carpet strips around the room. You will need to also use plyers, flat screwdriver to lift and pull all the staples. It's a bit time consuming but not terrible.
Depending on how you plan on disposing of the carpet, should justify how big or small the rolls should be when you cut it. Generally if you're having your garbage service pick it up, they have a standard of 4 foot rolls or smaller, or they won't take it. So make sure you have a game plan for disposal before you start.
Get yourself a box cutter and some nice new blades. Start ripping it up in strips. If you have shoe molding, it may have to be removed because the carpet should be underneath it. If the carpet is really old, you'll notice that high traffic areas that get the most walking on will be tougher to cut up.
Suggestions from experience - wear long sleeves and gloves; the Bottom side of carpet can scratch and cut your skin up pretty easily, and being that it's old carpet, it's probably not the cleanest thing, so make sure you have anti-bacterial soap on hand for when you're done.
The underlayment in the high traffic areas may also be disintegrating and kind of stuck to the subfloor, but it scrapes up pretty easily.
Tack strips are the thin strips of wood around the perimeter of your room that are pinned into the subfloor, and have tacks sticking straight up to hold the carpet in place. These tacks are really, really sharp. So the gloves will help you here. Once everything is up, you may want to open the windows and get some ventilation going, because it's usually quite dusty and dirty underneath. Vacuuming is a better cleaning method than broom sweeping because the dust can be really fine.
Good Luck!
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Buy a genuine carpet knife. It's an inexpensive tool that will make the job go much easier. It has a double sided blade, so you have to be extremely careful! (trust me on those words of cautionš«)