Glue Down Carpet Removal

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Glue down carpet removal.

Carpet glue is an incredibly strong adhesive designed to fix rolls of carpet to concrete floors. 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. Boiling water will soften up hard to remove glue. Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper.

A 2 to 4 wide blade should be appropriate for removing carpet glue. 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. Though incredibly effective this specialty glue is also notorious because it leaves behind sticky residue that is hard to remove with traditional removal methods. Glued down carpet is the absolute worst.

Step 2 use boiling water. Step 1 scraping the carpet glue. The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later. If the dried glue looks like the black mastic pictured in my post i would definitely recommend trying the sentinel 747 adhesive remover.

How to pull up glue down indoor outdoor carpeting made easy.