Lift Carpet Edge

Use your hands to lift up and detach the carpet from the tack strips at the base of the remaining walls in the.
Lift carpet edge. Carpet is stretched over tack strips using a kick stretcher or a power stretcher so if you pull the whole carpet it you risk losing that stretch. Removing a carpet strip in the doorway to prep for the installation of floor tile. Thus lok lift creates a secure installation that can be used over virtually any flooring surface including wood carpet concrete and vinyl. Lok lift is a flooring installation product containing a unique dry bond adhesive mesh that creates total edge to edge adhesion between carpet and subsurface.
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. Lok lift minimize downtime with our fully releasable wall to wall flooring installation system. To remove tack strip just pop it up with a flat pry bar. Tack strip is available at home centers about 20 per ft but you ll save very little money if any by installing it yourself.
The installer needs a gap at least 1 4 in.