This Is The BEST TOOL For Glued-Down Flooring! (Carpet Removal/Floor Adhesive Removal)

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I recently had to take up the glued-down carpet in my new shop space. This is never a pleasant task--but I couldn't believe how difficult it was to remove this particular carpet!

The original adhesive was still very effective in parts of the floor. Removing the carpet and getting down to something like the original slab took several hours over two days.

It's best to cut carpet into smaller squares with a sharp utility knife (carefully!) Pull carpet sections up from two sides, if possible, with a sawing motion.

When carpet or flooring sticks this badly, though, you need to bring tools into the picture. An 8" hard scraper was the best thing I found for a carpet this stubborn. You can swipe it under the edges with speed and force, and slowly get a portion of the carpet lifted.

Once the carpet was pulled up around the room, I then had to deal with at least some of the adhesive still down on the floor. Sometimes, if dry and brittle, this adhesive can be scraped up with an 8" razor scraper. But, this adhesive was still too stubborn.

In the end, I had to use a low-VOC flooring stripper. I didn't document this much, because it's a dangerous chemical process. (I'll work with a flooring company in the future for this.)

But, it still makes a horrible mess. In this case, I found that a 14" hard scraper was better to cover more surface area. I added sawdust to the floor at times just to cut down on the residue left behind.

In the end the shop got cleared and everything swept out the door. It was tedious, but I'm not ready for the rest of the shop build.

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