I absolutely hate carpet, I don't want to have to buy special expensive products when I can just take soap, water and a mop to my floor. Most homes have carpet in every bedroom if not the whole house sans bathroom.
What is the most cost efficient way to remove carpet and best floor materials besides wooden floor boards?
Should I remove the carpet and then call to have the construction worker install floorboord?
I removed the carpet to put on laminate flooring in the bedroom of my house when I moved in and it was piss easy.
It's probably just tacked on directly over plywood subfloor
How easy was it to put on the flooring or is that something you have experience in?
Thanks, also concrete.
I've been looking up the cost of hiring someone and thousands of dollars just for some floors sound insane
No experience with flooring in particular. I'm 6 years into working in fabrication/fitting so that might have given me an advantage compared to most but unless you're really fricktarded when it comes to working with your hands you'll surely be fine.
Basically in my case it was removing the carpet by ripping it off with pliers and prying off the tack slats, laying foam underlayment over the plywood, put on spacers to the walls, cut boards at random-ish lengths and lay them staggering the joints, bonk them with a piece of wood so the tongue fits nicely into the groove (you're probably gonna need a puller bar for the final side) and put quarter round to hide the spacing gap.
>concrete
Then it is glued down. You'll have to call in a carpet cleaning crew to steam it up. Some carpet comes up in one piece others rips into narrow strips.
Try to pull up a corner first and see what happens.
Just try to pull it up and see what happens. Just install the flooring yourself. Borrow a chopsaw from a friend (buy a new blade) and watch some youtube videos. This is PrepHole not /hiremexicanstodoeverythingforme/
>it was piss easy
>How easy
piss easy
larn 2 raed
Get a razor knife with plenty of replacement blades. Cut it into 6ft wide strips and roll it up. The edges are going to have wood strips with tacks you'll have to pry up too.
Get something like this. It makes it easy to pull staples by just grabbing and rolling it.
What's under the carpet?
These, and then just polish the concrete instead of laying down a new floor
>polish the concrete instead
Do you enjoy living in a cave?
Do you crave that cold echo chamber aesthetic that just screams "go away?"
Then do this.
There's a reason someone put carpet on that floor. Think hard about it before you make this change.
>There's a reason someone put carpet on that floor.
Because they're stupid boomers with shit taste.
Carpet is the worst interior flooring in existence
yes.
it's the god damned floor he's not using his house for a courting ritual. it just has to be there and be easy to clean.
Also rugs. Cement floors don't have to be a stark sea of minimalism, but it helps. You put shit on top of it and get creative and move things around. It's like leaving an empty part on the canvas of your home. You're stuck with whatever colour you paint the walls or the stain of your wood floors for years, but by leaving it barren you're free to explore a bit
>just polish the concrete instead of
Wow that's a great idea! I never thought of just using the concrete. Can you change the color of it? I mean if not sounds nice
You can't change the colour of the existing concrete, but you can always put a thin layer of cement mixed with colourings on top of the slab once you've ripped up the carpet and polish that
>Do you enjoy living in a cave?
>aesthetic that just screams "go away?"
Yes. Caves are based and I hate people. Plus sweeping instead of vacuuming and not having to be precious about scratching floorboards
You can stain existing concrete
Very true, one caveat though is that for the really amazing results that people can't believe are concrete you need to have an extremely uniform and well prepped surface that is usually nothing like a typical slab floor built with the intention of being covered with carpet or another finish flooring....not even when it's brand new, and any glue or paint or other junk can require extensive stripping or even skimming over to get a good surface for quality stain application.
In that case you can get similar results using epoxy, with less prep labor making up (somewhat) for the higher material expense.
Only downside here is that concrete will outlive epoxy by miles. But well cared for epoxy should be fairly sturdy.
Do you live at the equator? Even tile floors are cold af.
I'm Alaskan
bruh ever heard of socks?
>he doesn't have heated floors
I can't even contemplate pleb existence.
Drag a utility knife across it and lift it out of the tack strips. I can pull an entire house in less than 4 hours. If it's shit glued to concrete then it needs to be scraped up with a floor scraper and lots of pulling.
This will look like a retail store. The builder that has a slab with that kind of uniformity doesn't just carpet it.
Remove the carpet and pad. If your subfloor is concrete the pad will be glued down, if your subfloor is wood it's probably stapled down. Either way get a razor scraper to either scrape the little bits of glued down pad or knock out the staples. Then you will need to pry out the tackstrip with a prybar.
Vinyl plank is a good option it looks nice and is cheaper than hardwood while also being more scratch resistant. For the most part it can be cut and installed with only a utility knife. Your subfloor needs to be flat so the planks don't have any voids below which can cause the locking mechanism to fail. The typical spec is no more than 3/16" of deviation over a 10ft span but that's often hard to achieve and a lot of contractors don't get anywhere near that flat. You will also need either new baseboards or install 1/4 round or shoe molding on your old ones since the planks require an expansion gap along the perimeter.
Carpet is filthy. You're going to see all the dirt that sifted down through the carpet and pad.
I completely agree, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to remove carpet in the home I purchase.
>What is the most cost efficient way to remove carpet
You literally just remove it. Take a knife and cut a line through it and start ripping.
Then put another floor down over top of the subfloor you've just exposed. That's a bit harder but also not terribly hard, depending on floor type.
I have carpet in the bathroom and around the jacuzzi (like the stairs around) and I don't know what the frick to do about it. What is the best floor to replace it with?
>bathroom
>floor
Are there any other answers than tile? (Honestly asking to anons more knowledgeable than me)
Pretty much all going to be the flat and moppable variety. I have linoleum in mine.
Some people in the 70's were crazy and went overboard on the carpet though.
yeah I dislike carpet in general but in bathrooms it's downright unacceptable
marble
epoxy
I also had carpet in both bathrooms when I bought my house. I have no idea what they were thinking.
We only have carpet in our three bedrooms. Carpet is comfy if kept clean.
>Carpet is comfy if kept clean.
Yea, problem is that is literally impossible.
I did this last year, I was planning on replacing my shit old carpet and found out I had hard wood under most of it. There were a few rooms that were expansions and I just put laminate down, underlayment and laminate are cheap and extremely easy to install, they literally click together.
My house has carpet in the bathrooms. Apparently it's from 1983.