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.
Removing glued carpet padding hardwood floors.
The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor.
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 padding might have been glued or stapled to the floor.
Here are several tips to remove carpet padding to avoid damaging your flooring.
Over several years it might have bonded to the polyurethane.
Carpet removal often results in carpet padding stuck to the hardwood flooring.
Start with a scraping tool.
I saw a tip somewhere to use resolve the carpet cleaner but not to clean the carpet but get the padding residue up from a hardwood floor.
Remove carpet glue from hardwood floors with flooring professionals.
Flooring experts informed our team of several common causes.
When you remove carpeting only to find hardwood floors underneath it can feel like you ve hit the jackpot right up until you notice the unsightly residual carpet glue.
The padding was not glued down but fused with the floor anyway.
It takes some elbow grease but it worked.