Removing Glued Carpet Pad

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.

Removing glued carpet pad.

Throw away the debris. Step 2 use boiling water. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. A 2 to 4 wide blade should be appropriate for removing carpet glue.

Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad. To use the scraper attachment insert the blade into your reciprocating saw and lock it in place. 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. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later.

Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue. Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours. Carpet installers use strong mastic that doesn t deteriorate when they glue down carpets and they often use more than is really needed both of which spell bad news for you when you want to remove the carpet.

Sharing a tutorial on the most effective way to remove glued down carpet after testing five different methods.