"CJ" wrote in message
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Oh my! This sounds like it could be a lot of hard work ... a monster job
for
sure......to get the glue up.
I'm now wondering if it's possible that renting a steamer and steaming the
carpet/glue
beforehand, would help remove the carpet and glue easier (somewhat like
removing wallpaper but a bit more complicated probably. Sounds messy too,
but maybe it would loosen the glue better than dry scraping).

And, I am very thankful for each response to my request for information
about this dilemma.

To be honest with you, I'm an engineer for the world's largest carpet
manufacturer. I called in every resource I could to find a better method
than "brute force" to remove my own glued down installation.

The only helpful suggestion I recieved is that there is a machine that can
be rented which has a vibrating blade and will act something like a sod
cutter and remove carpet glued to a concrete floor. Some rental places have
the machine, some do not. Try calling a local carpet dealer and see if they
can point you in the right direction. Don't try using this machine on
anything other than a concrete floor.

KB




"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
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"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