Taking Baseboards Off With Carpet

Number or label the back of the trim and the lower edge of the wall to keep each piece in order if you will be putting the baseboards back in place.

Taking baseboards off with carpet. We are having new flooring put in and are trying to decide between wood floors or just get some new and better quality carpet. Place the claw of your crowbar between the blade of the knife and the board. It helps to keep the. Hammer any nails heads that are sticking out of the.

If any caulking stubbornly remains use your utility knife to carefully cut it off the wall. Pull back the space between the taping knife and board with a crowbar. We were told that in order to put in the wood floors that the baseboards would have to be taken off and put back on again so the wood could go under them. Of tape running past the carpet that overlaps onto the baseboard.

Continue the removal process by moving to the. Carefully apply more pressure if needed but don t yank or force anything. Use the putty knife to carefully and slowly scrape the wall where the caulking was previously located. Gently pull your end of the bar up to separate the board from the wall.

Is this the same for installing carpet too. What you re doing is just getting the tape tucked in between the edge of the carpet and the trim. In the past this task involved inserting a putty knife between the baseboard and the wall and giving it a twist. Now take a putty knife or 5 in 1 tool and start working at one end and push the tape down.