"CJ" wrote in message
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What is the best way to remove carpet that has been glued down in a
bedroom?

The house our daughter is purchasing has this glued carpet in one of the
bedrooms.

From the description, it's possibly an indoor/outdoor carpet or an
industrial type carpet rather than plush.


Depending on how aggressive the adhesive is, this can be a monster job.
Professional installers use hooked blades on utility knives to slit the
carpet into strips, then they pull up the individual strips. If they have
to cut the carpet into 2' by room length strips, that's what they do. If
that doesn't work, they cut it into 1' strips. If that is still too tough,
they continue slitting to smaller strip sizes until they get to a size that
is managable.

In the basement playroom in my old house, someone had gotten extremely
generous with the adhesive. I had to cut the 800 sf of carpet into 4 to 6"
strips to remove it. It took chunks of concrete with it. It probably took
me 20 man hours to pull everything up.

KB