How do you remove carpeting?

Answer 1

Carpet is almost always held down around the edges with nailed down tac strips. You just grab an edge somewhere and tear it up off the floor. You'll then have to remove the tac strips. Try pulling up a corner maybe and looking underneath. You'll see. note: it's possible it was glued down but you remove it the same way. The glue leaves a mess though and you gotta scrape it off. Hope not.

Answer 2

1) Remove all furniture from room or move it to one side of the room. 2) Peel carpet back so you have about 3 feet of carpet backing showing. 3) Using a carpet knife cut the carpet from the back into easy to handle strips (usually around 3 ft wide) 4) Roll strips up and bundle with twine or duct tape. 5) Repeat until all the carpet is removed 6) Scrape up pad using a flat hoe or a floor scraper, roll up and tape.