Comments on: Ripping up carpet and padding 101

By: debbie

debbie — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:10:38 +0000

Hi Gail.. Glad I saw this post..Ill be ripping up carpet in my mobile home this summer, unfortunately I know there are no beautiful hardwood floors lurking beneath.. but thats a good tip to cut in smaller sections for the garbage to pick up. Thanks

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:36:45 +0000

When you pull up your carpet and pad it can be recycled depending on your state. So land filling it is not your only option! Btw keep up the good work.

By: Hollie @ Stuck on Hue

Hollie @ Stuck on Hue — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:03:26 +0000

The spray painting of the vents on the wood floor … bad decision! Maybe at the time, the wood floors were thought to be hideous and the owners couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to reveal them again???

Your sentence about using the Gorilla Tape reminds me that I still have some unused Gorilla products in my basement. I ended up with a bunch from our blogger meetup. One of my son’s best friends is a Gorilla Tape junkie. For his high school graduation gift, he is getting a Gorilla gift pack and he will LOVE it!

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:29:06 +0000

Now that’s a lot of work! I can’t wait to see it all done! I’m ripping out carpet too. But mine is all glued down, no nails or tacks at all! 🙂

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:36:51 +0000

Hi Gail!
I have ripped out carpeting before. YUCK! Not fun.
One tip I have?
Wear Protection!!
Comfy shoes and of course, GLOVES! (SAW THOSE IN THE PICTURES)
But most importantly? FACE MASK–DUST MASK… whatever you want to call it. Even a bandanna is better than nothing!
I have to say… I have a ‘PROJECT HOUSE’ TOO! 😉
I thought we all owned project houses… hee-he-he!
Patricia

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:15:51 +0000

Wish I had hard wood under my carpet. We have concrete slabs. I am so jealous.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:13:08 +0000

Who spray paints over hardwood? In my house the answer would be: Barbarians and Philistines.

Tore up carpeting from our large living/great room and a bedroom. Luckily, my teenage boys did all the heavy work. There were two layers of carpeting (one really thin and cheap). The worst was that the padding had disintegrated! We had to use brooms and shovels to remove it. My patient son who doesn’t mind tedious work, pried them all up. Unfortunately, there wasn’t hardwood floors underneath; just plywood. But putting a new floor in wasn’t nearly as hard as tearing up the carpeting. This summer we are going to get rid of the lasts bit of carpeting in the house which is in an enclosed porch/laundry room (who puts carpeting near a washing machine?!).

By: Margaret Webb

Margaret Webb — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:35:49 +0000

You are brave person to do that. I am going to take up a carpet that is all glued down this summer and don’t know what is under it. After this I am not looking forward to doing this but will wait until I can have the windows open to do this. Thank you for the advice on what to do with the carpet.

By: Mindi

Mindi — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:23:49 +0000

Yippee! I am so excited to see the progress on this! Just getting to this stage was a ton of work, holy cow! Great tips though, I wish I had hardwood floors under my carpet, but I don’t. Pinned!

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:19:32 +0000

We had to remove carpet from our current home but wood floors were not underneath them. I can’t believe they spray painted the vents on the wood floors!!! Who does that?!! Ahhh! I can’t wait to see your next post on sanding the floors down!