Ripping Up Carpet And Staining Concrete

Stained concrete would be much cleaner and smell fresher than carpet in the finished basement.

Ripping up carpet and staining concrete.

See more ideas about ripping up carpet concrete stained floors basement remodeling. Feb 25 2018 explore jasmine hunt s board ripping up carpet on pinterest. 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. 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.

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. Depending on the amount of light you get down there you may want to use a light colored stain if not much natural light or if a lot of natural light go with the darker leather color. Some of the challenges include ripping up and disposing of the old flooring and removing any adhesives. I want to rip up the carpet and stain the concrete under it.

Replace carpet and tile floors with concrete plus see examples of before and after photos. The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked. An old linoleum bathroom floor is updated with a concrete overlay scored and stained to look like stone tile. 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.

I bought a house that has a small sunroom but it is carpeted.