Pulling Up Carpet In Mobile Home

Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand.

Pulling up carpet in mobile home.

Figure out how you will dispose of the old carpet before you pull it up. Mobile home supply companies and some home improvement centers by special order have or can get carpet in 14 16 widths. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. If the goal is simply to get the old carpet out of the way protect your hands with heavy gloves and use a sharp utility knife to cut a border around the entire area about four or five inches away from the walls.

Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. Mobile homes often have the carpet terminated in a hallway or junction between rooms with staples holding down the carpet. Remove this small piece of carpet and then pull up on the larger section. Removing carpet from a mobile home requires using a utility knife to cut up the carpet and a pry bar to lift out the staples and tack strips.

Your carpet is held down with tack strips. Carpet may cost money to dispose of so shop around. Carpet can stain and wear out over time so plan to replace it every five to ten years especially if it is installed in high traffic areas like living rooms. Mobile homes come with the carpet stapled to the floor sometimes before the walls are built and the walls set on the carpet.

That means that you may be able to install carpet without having to make any seams. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. This eliminates the most difficult carpet installation task. If it won t come up then cut a small 6 inch by 6 inch square in the corner with your utility knife.

Start at one corner of your room and try to pull up the carpet. 2 comments read them below sylvia moriel. If this is the case you will need to take a utility razor knife and cut around the edges of the wall to pull the carpet up. Fold back about 3 ft.

Of carpet and cut it into easy to handle strips photo 1. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.