Ripping Up Carpet And Staining Concrete

Replace carpet and tile floors with concrete plus see examples of before and after photos.

Ripping up carpet and staining concrete.

An old linoleum bathroom floor is updated with a concrete overlay scored and stained to look like stone tile. See more ideas about ripping up carpet concrete stained floors basement remodeling. Remove the 3 foot wide carpet sections from the tack strips by shaking the carpet in a back and forth motion while pulling it up from the surface of the floor. Feb 25 2018 explore jasmine hunt s board ripping up carpet on pinterest.

Stained concrete would be much cleaner and smell fresher than carpet in the finished basement. Pull back a corner of the carpet using a pair of pliers. Removing carpet and staining concrete floor we have carpet right now and i was told by someone it is cheaper to stain your concrete floor instead of putting laminate wood flooring down. It would have cost us over 3000 for new carpet and more than that for tile or wood floors and we purchased the items needed to stain the concrete ourselves and instead got the job done for less than 600 and have ended up with a much better outcome in my opinion.

So i asked a contractor about staining the concrete floor and he said you really can t do it if carpet is down with a pre exisiting concrete floor due to cracks and unlevel concrete. To get the job done and silence the squealer we figured that if we researched staining pre carpeted concrete floors on the web we could pull up the berber carpet and stain our dining room bedroom hallways and living room by ourselves for about 500. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. I bought a house that has a small sunroom but it is carpeted.

I want to rip up the carpet and stain the concrete under it.