Oh and lisa and i will be replacing our family room carpet with hardwood this coming weekend so i still have to get my hands dirty again with hardwood floors very soon.
Changing flooring from carpet to hardwood.
Remove the carpet padding in the same way.
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The first step in replacing your carpet with hardwood is removing the old carpet.
Try to pull the carpeting back starting in one corner of the room.
Carpet carpet as a material costs as little as 1 2 per square foot and as much as 9 11 per square foot for an average 12 by 12 space you could pay 150 to 1 500 for the material alone.
Hardwood hardwood as a material costs as little as 3 6 per square foot and as much as 8 14 per square foot.
I used to work for my dad to install.
While saying that hardwood flooring is clearly superior to carpet flooring may be presumptuous the truth is that it does outperform it in the majority of different fields.
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There are a lot of ways to remove carpet padding on your wood floors but today i m going to tell you the easiest way to do it hi i m durbany and hardwood flooring is my speciallty.
Installing hardwood floors can cost between 9 and 12 per square foot compared with about 3 to 5 per square foot for carpet so some homeowners opt to install hardwood floors only in some rooms.
In other words while the advantages of a carpeted floor outside of just saving money are mostly situational hardwood is a better choice in the majority of cases.
Move all the furniture and personal items out of the room you will be renovating.
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This means removing the carpet first the.
To make it more manageable to roll up and throw away use a sharp box cutter to cut the carpet into sections as you go.
Carefully insert a flat pry bar under the carpet in a corner of the room.
The basic rule of thumb with removing the carpet for a hardwood installation is that you just go in reverse to take things back to the original subfloor.