Removing Glued Carpet Pad

Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue.

Removing glued carpet pad.

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. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. Step 2 use boiling water. 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. Over several years it may have bonded to the polyurethane. Throw away the debris.

The padding may have been glued or stapled to the floor. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. 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.

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