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Scrape Off Remaining Carpet Padding — Scrape Away Carpet Padding

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How to Remove Glued Carpet Padding from Stairs · Step 2 of 5

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Inspect the exposed hardwood floor for sections of carpet padding that have stubbornly stuck, often in high-traffic areas. Use a long-handled floor scraper to get underneath the padding and carefully scrape it off. Apply light, consistent pressure to avoid gouging or scratching the hardwood. Collect the removed padding pieces into a trash receptacle.

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delayed gratification we're going to cut the rest of the Green carpet and then we'll get up the padding let's get back to it wow it is way better than I thought it was going to be it's orange but like it looks cool it's not terrible they look pretty in pretty good condition so far well I wonder if they got it and they put carbon down like two years later because it became it's like us taking this out of the second we moved in they put on purpose yeah foreign so as you probably saw there it was very difficult getting the carpet padding up on the areas where the person that lived here before walked around the bed you can see what it was basically compacted into the wood floor underneath so I went and bought a floor scraper and hopefully it will make light work of all this let's get to it also it's pretty crazy just taking out the carpeting it's so echoey in here all of a sudden it's completely changed the Acoustics of the room we were a bit worried that floor scraper might damage the hardwood floors but we found just a little bit of pressure that carpet padding came right out after removing the padding in all three bedrooms we were happily surprised with the minimal amount of damage left behind we also were wondering now would it be worth it to refinish all these floors I

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