To avoid causing your carpet to buckle when moving furniture or other heavy items you must take precautions.
Carpet moved from the nail.
Place one sheet on the carpet and walk the item onto.
Carpet removal costs 1 to 1 50 per square foot including labor cleanup and waste disposal.
Some landlords may expect a professional carpet cleaning as well.
Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.
This equals 48 to 72 per hour because it usually takes 3 hours to remove carpet from a 12 by 12 foot room including extracting the tack strips and staples.
If you ve moved the threshold more than an inch you may also need to trim the carpet pad so it doesn t cover the threshold pins.
It is best to lift the item and carry it if it is possible.
With stairs you want to stretch it into the inner corner of each step.
An industrial stapler and staples for securing the carpet.
If the item is too heavy to be completely lifted off the carpet then use two sheets of sturdy plywood to move it.
Two strips of padding for each step one of the step itself and one for the rise.
Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room.
These types of pads are specially designed to help keep an area rug from shifting and rippling over the carpet.
Additionally these pads can help prevent damage to the carpet under the rug as repeated friction from the rug moving over the carpet could cause premature wear or blooming of the carpet fibers underneath.
When replacing carpet with hardwood flooring you can save time and the cost of new trim by understanding the way baseboard installs for each type of floor covering.
If you re working on a wood sub floor nail down the replacement threshold with 1 1 2 in.
One nail in a pair is 1 2.
Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips.
It s definitely worth your time to read every move out detail in your agreement as some landlords levy extra fees if you don t take care of an item on the list or if you don t do it within the specified time frame.
A hammer and nails.
How to remove nail polish from carpet.
But if significant pressure is put on the carpet like oh i don t know the body weight of an adult human that s when the nails come out and poke you.
Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand.
A carpet knee kicker to help stretch and fasten carpets.