Cutting Up Old Carpet Tool

The cutter has an extra long nose for better row separation plus a bottom platform and beveled surface that allows the cutter to stay straight.

Cutting up old carpet tool.

This video will take you through our step by step process on how to remove old carpet and padding. A utility knife is capable of cutting through carpet rather easily. Although this isn t the tool that is most commonly used by professionals it is one that most people have sitting around the house. It offers you precise and accurate cut through carpets quickly without time.

Don t jam the blade into the carpet too deeply. This carpet cutter is the ideal tool for cutting carpets accurately and efficiently. I will probably replace the carpet with laminate or hardwood floor. Point the blade downward and touch the tip to your starting point on the carpet.

To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Fold the carpet over for easy cutting and slice it into narrow strips. This project is for all of us diyers who like to take matt. The utility knife is the tool that most people think of first when the topic of carpet removal is brought up.

Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling. Cutting carpet is mostly a matter of getting through the backing which is the hard flat side that lays flush against the floor. Video of me taking out some old carpet pad and tack strip to make way for new flooring. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.

Instead of raking your blade across the carpet and through the padding to make a cut just make a 4 5 inch hole and use your fingers to pull the carpet up with one hand then cut the raised carpet.