how can I remove fitted carpet and grippers?

piggles1

Hi all,

I've had a search here and online and not found the answer to this, hope someone can help.

There's a possibility I'm moving, and as I'm in a housing association place I will have to return it to its original state, which would mean removing the carpets.

The carpets are fitted with grippers plus underlay. The kitchen lino will also have to be removed and it's stuck down at the edges, although is still 'gluey'. There's also the problem that the washing machine and cooker are on top of it.

In an ideal world I'd take the carpet/lino with me and relay it somewhere else. There's quite a lot of it and it used a big part of my savings. How would I remove it all and keep the carpet intact? And would the grippers come up prised with a screwdriver? I think they're nailed down. The stairs are carpeted as well, with hard lino underneath and grippers.

Semms a bit of a big job, any ideas?

Thanks

Furts

The gripper rods will come up but those I have come across are designed to stay put in timber floors using the ring shank nails in the gripper. So you may end up snapping them in places. If your floors are concrete you must expect the concrete to be chipped, or spalled, after you have removed them. Whether you will have to make this good would be agreed between you and the HA.

If you prise up the gripper rods you may bend the fixing nails so they will then be suspect for fitting again.

I have never stored used gripper rods - they are a safety hazard so where can they be put safely? Hence, I have recycled them.

Bear in mind that the rods cost peanuts in terms of getting a good carpet and good underlay put down in a room.

piggles1

Thanks Furts, the floor's chipboard. So I'm guessing the nails will be a bit hard to remove if they're ring shank. I hope I don't have to drill them out because I've only got a battery drill. They did bang very hard to get them in.

The stairs will probably be covered in little holes after, because there's lino underneath the underlay.

I'm presuming I'd bend most of the gripper rods getting them up so yeh I'll recycle them like you said.

Reece_

As said the rods will more than likely be fit for the bin once up, they should come up easy enough from a chipboard floor.
Once the lino is up you can get products such as de solv it which can clean up any glue residue left on the floor.

piggles1

Reece_ wrote: »

As said the rods will more than likely be fit for the bin once up, they should come up easy enough from a chipboard floor.
Once the lino is up you can get products such as de solv it which can clean up any glue residue left on the floor.

that's brill, thanks Reece. My local homebase does the residue remover you mention.