To remove tack strip just pop it up with a flat pry bar.
Lift carpet edge.
Wide to tuck the edge of the carpet down against the baseboard.
To avoid replacing the carpet before its time once the carpet begins to lift stretch it back into the tack strips or the threshold to prevent the carpet from fraying at the edges which can.
Use your hands to lift up and detach the carpet from the tack strips at the base of the remaining walls in the.
The installer needs a gap at least 1 4 in.
Tack strip is available at home centers about 20 per ft but you ll save very little money if any by installing it yourself.
Ask as assistant to help pull the edge of the carpet 3 feet away from the short wall.
I did some work under our carpet and wound up pulling up too much and had to hire a company to come out and re stretch and tack it back down but if you re just pulling up a small corner you should be.
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