Remove Carpet And Paint Concrete Floor

Tips on how to stain concrete floors.

Remove carpet and paint concrete floor.

All you need to do is create a clean smooth surface to which the paint can adhere. It s a sound theory but should only be executed by a professiona. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. If you ever wanted to replace your carpet with stained concrete you should watch this first.

How to remove your old carpet and paint your concrete floor. Pull up carpet and carpet pad. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. On a concrete floor the carpet pad is often glued into place.

Use pliers to pull padding staples when removing carpet from stairs. We d pull it back as far as we could and then cut it into strips with a box cutter. Removing the glue completely using an adhesive remover would be the best way to proceed but if removal isn t possible you can still paint a concrete surface covered in glue. Here are the steps we followed.

In this case use a floor scraper to remove the pieces of padding that remain stuck to the floor. So i asked a contractor about staining the concrete floor and he said you really can t do it if carpet is down with a pre exisiting concrete floor due to. Clean the concrete surface thoroughly and let dry. It also makes applying a concrete stain color challenging because the stain can t get past the glue to do its job.

Painting over a concrete floor that has glue on it can present some issues. Leaving the glue on the floor is not a good option because it can collect grime. Carpet adhesive is stubborn and difficult to remove. When you set out to remove paint from concrete the first thing to do is clean the surface of the concrete thoroughly.

Remove the 3 foot wide carpet sections from the tack strips by shaking the carpet in a back and forth motion while pulling it up from the surface of the floor. This video shows the steps that must be taken in preparation for staining concrete floors. Removing carpet and staining concrete floor we have carpet right now and i was told by someone it is cheaper to stain your concrete floor instead of putting laminate wood flooring down. We pulled the carpet and pad up from one of the corners of the room.