The slow work of using a flathead screwdriver to lift each staple motivated us to purchase this tool from amazon aka.
Easiest way to get staples out of hardwood floor.
I hope you will try to get it off.
Michael and i spent 3 hours there on thursday night pulling up tacks staples and tack strips.
I have put down a tongue and grove plywood subfloor and am wondering if.
Grab a corner of the carpet pad and pull it up from the hardwood floor.
I took out some old hardwood strip flooring from a renovation job and pulled out the nails from the back and plan on cutting out the damaged wood and re installing the good wood in my home.
Plus that hardwood finish was too pretty to damage.
However there are hundreds of flooring staples that have been hammered flat into the beautiful tasmanian oak.
Some are easily punched into the wood ready to be filled and sanded.
My husband and son and the workers had no trouble.
In the second home that we renovated we were faced with the task of removing so.
Staple that attached the padding to the floor will either pop out with the pad or.
Only 3 bedrooms the living room and dining room to go.
Pulling carpet tacks out of previously buried hardwood floors is not hard it s just tedious.
Hold the tool at about a 45 degree angle and slide it forcefully along the floor.
Call a local floor refinisher and find out what the tool is and where you get one.
Stripping hardwood flooring the wrong way can cost you hours of backbreaking work leave you with an enormous mess and even cause permanent damage to your subflooring.
However others are too mangled and old to be easily punched and need to be pulled out.
Instead they ve developed a smart efficient way to remove staples with a shovel or long handled floor scraper.
The easy way to remove carpet staples from hardwood.
Put on the medium duty leather gloves.
The floor looks like yours under all that plywood we removed.
The original floor was untouched by the staples as they weren t that deep.
To remove carpet tacks you will need vise grips.
Flooring installers don t use a cat s paw to remove staples after old carpet has been removed there are just too many of them.
Installing salvaged old hardwood strip flooring.