How to pull up glue down indoor outdoor carpeting made easy.
Glue down carpet removal.
Remove as much of the carpet glue as possible by scraping it using a razor blade scraper.
Step 1 scraping the carpet glue.
If it s a different type of glue i dont know for sure if this will work but i feel your pain.
A 2 to 4 wide blade should be appropriate for removing carpet glue.
Carpet installers use strong mastic that doesn t deteriorate when they glue down carpets and they often use more than is really needed both of which spell bad news for you when you want to remove the carpet.
If the scraper.
If the dried glue looks like the black mastic pictured in my post i would definitely recommend trying the sentinel 747 adhesive remover.
To use the scraper attachment insert the blade into your reciprocating saw and lock it in place.
Pulling up the carpet and scraping underneath with a paint scraper to beak the glue bond is tedious work and wetting the carpet to loosen the adhesive may cause it to break into pieces.
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Glued down carpet is the absolute worst.
Step 2 use boiling water.
The scraper can easily remove big chunks of the glue which helps get the job done more easily later.