You may be embarrassed when guests come to your front doorstep if you still have ripped and disgusting carpet glued to your cement steps.
Carpet on cement slab.
Any kind of persistent moisture will allow mold to get a foothold and soon ruin carpet or wood flooring.
Here are some alternative methods to get carpet glue off of concrete that will protect your health and your wallet.
For below grade slabs assume that the concrete floor will get damp at some point.
Then lay tack strips around the perimeter of the room and install your strips of padding.
To install carpet on concrete choose a carpet that is constructed of synthetic products only as natural fibers are often too absorbent.
Carpet is generally sold in yards but if you provide the store or distributor with a square footage they can transform this number into square yards for pricing and sales purposes.
Before you install the carpet make sure to check the concrete for any moisture issues that need to be addressed.
If your basement concrete cement slab is not insulated and is damp or has visible moisture.
Outdoor carpet on your front porch or patio can get grimy and filled with dirt and other germs.
Any carpet fiber style from plush to loop can be applied to a concrete floor.
Here s where things take a turn from the expected aka carpet installed over wood subfloors.
It will seem like getting those out is impossible and i definitely felt that way too.
Avoid installed wall to wall carpeting.
With a few easy and simple steps your concrete slab will be on its way from dirty and dated to clean and simple.
Removing carpet from a concrete slab involves also removing the approximately 10 million nails driven straight into the concrete around the perimeter of the room.
Step 1 scraping the carpet glue.
The chosen fiber material type should be a synthetic form such as olefin face fiber.
Because carpet is made from material fibers it is highly absorbent.
Maintain gaps for air circulation.
Step 2 patch the concrete subfloor as required.
You then have two options depending on your circumstances.
The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later.
This may help soak up puddles in the event of a flood but carpet shouldn t retain water for long.
And both of the options use the same layers of 1 2 in.
Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper.