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Posted by LB217 on November 26, 2006, 5:57 pm
How do I save the hardwoos when pulling up carpet? Do you always have to
refinish?
Liz -first time home owner!
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Posted by Sacramento Dave on November 26, 2006, 6:50 pm
> How do I save the hardwoos when pulling up carpet? Do you always have to
> refinish?
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> Liz -first time home owner!
There's nothing you can do to save the hardwood floors what's there is
there. Pulling the carpet is the only way to determine what it needs. But if
there is tack strips the edges will look bad.
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Posted by buffalobill on November 26, 2006, 6:57 pm
we refinish with 4 coats of polyurethane and put down thick pad and
carpeting if desired.
LB217 wrote:
> How do I save the hardwoos when pulling up carpet? Do you always have to
> refinish?
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> Liz -first time home owner!
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Posted by Bob F on November 26, 2006, 7:16 pm
> How do I save the hardwoos when pulling up carpet? Do you always have to
> refinish?
There will be holes from tack strips and nails. Whether you need to
refinish will be determined by their condition before carpeting, time
carpeted, and how many holes you find. Also, pet stains may be a
big problem which even refinishing cannot cure.
Bob
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Posted by on November 27, 2006, 6:23 am
LB217 wrote:
> How do I save the hardwoos when pulling up carpet? Do you always have to
> refinish?
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> Liz -first time home owner!
Hello Liz:
We had ratty old carpet in our first house and couldn't afford to
replace it. So we just ripped it up, and underneath were beautiful
wood floors (I think they were pine, not hardwood, but still
beautiful).
We had to pull up carpet and padding, carefully pry up tack stripping
along the edges, and pull up hundreds of staples that had held down the
padding. The last was most difficult and time-consuming because some
staples were so old they had rusted. The top tended to break off and
leave the legs in the wood. Those legs were extremely hard to get hold
of. Found that a miniature pair of Vise-Grips worked best. (The cheap
knock-offs did NOT work!) A few staples had to be gently hammered in
below the surface.
There didn't appear to be any pet stains or similar, so we just cleaned
the floors thoroughly and waxed them. They didn't look "new" but they
looked pretty darned good.
But it will depend entirely on the condition of the floors. In our
case the previous owners installed carpet because that's what they
wanted, not because the floors were in bad shape. YMMV.
Best -- Terry
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