Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull.
Easy way to remove carpet tack strips.
Discard the old tack strip in a heavy duty trash.
Positioning the pry bar at each nail and lifting upward will loosen it from the floor for easy removal.
To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner.
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Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall.
Carpet tack strips can usually remain in place but look for rust rot or other damage.
Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room.
Cut a slit in the carpet about 6 inches away from a corner using a carpet knife which is a utility knife with a curved blade.
A very easy way to remove carpet tack strip from the basement concrete floor.
Slide the pry bar down to the next nail and repeat until the strip is loose from the floor.
With this method you ll never break a strip unless the wood is rotten.
Once the carpet is removed locate the nails which attach the tack strips to the floor.
At those points slide a pry bar under the tack strip.
Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips.
Continue like this until you have freed the entire strip.
To easily remove the carpet tack strip move the pry bar near a nail and pry up while gently lifting the end of the tack strip with your other hand.
If you are pulling up carpet from stairs.
You are likely to find that the tack strip is nailed to the floor about every 6 inches.
Those tacks are beyond sharp.
Oh and do be careful when removing carpet tack strips.
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Press the pry bar in order to begin lifting the tack strip.
Repeat until the tack strip is completely removed and discard safely in a trash receptacle so no one is injured.
Hook a crowbar into the slit and pull the corner of the carpet off.
Roll up the strips and tape them for easy handling.