Hi
I want to put down new 11m underlay and a 50oz carpet , the worn out carpet
I noticed after puling up a corner has that grey foam underlay glued to the chipboard floor, is it best to try and scrape all this off ? which would be a heck of a mission its soft and only about 2-3 mill max , the previous people just carpeted over it with their underlay... anyone come across this please ?

daz1968 - 2021-05-11 16:01:00

daz1968 wrote:

Hi
I want to put down new 11m underlay and a 50oz carpet , the worn out carpet
I noticed after puling up a corner has that grey foam underlay glued to the chipboard floor, is it best to try and scrape all this off ? which would be a heck of a mission its soft and only about 2-3 mill max , the previous people just carpeted over it with their underlay... anyone come across this please ?

We had cheap carpet with spongy foam glued to the back, glued directly to the floor in one bedroom. I scraped it all off with a tungsten paint scraper. It probably wouldn't even show under new underlay, though.

apollo11 - 2021-05-11 17:09:00

apollo11 wrote:

We had cheap carpet with spongy foam glued to the back, glued directly to the floor in one bedroom. I scraped it all off with a tungsten paint scraper. It probably wouldn't even show under new underlay, though.

I guess you had to scrape it off aye as glued to floor and back of carpet, this is glued to floor , but not the underlay with current carpet , if it was one room yes I would probably scrape off , but an entire house mmm I tend to agree with new 11m underlay and a pretty dense carpet I think it will be fine , carpet firms like to get it all done in one day , so I will have my time cut out with keeping ahead anyway with shifting furniture and screwing down any squeaks in for once theyve uplifed, to strip of foam would take at least a day or so..

daz1968 - 2021-05-12 18:42:00

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andrew697 - 2021-05-14 06:12:00

When I did this many years back in the UK, I was given a really powerful solvent that soaked into the underlay and dissolved the glue. Worked like a treat and I was high as a kite for weeks.

sparkychap - 2021-05-14 08:08:00

lol I remember someone had this on a concrete floor and took it up with a really sharp spade.

landylass - 2021-05-17 18:09:00

sparkychap wrote:

When I did this many years back in the UK, I was given a really powerful solvent that soaked into the underlay and dissolved the glue. Worked like a treat and I was high as a kite for weeks.

Ahhh - the residue

brouser3 - 2021-05-17 20:04:00

brouser3 wrote:

Ahhh - the residue

Yeah but it's all gloopy and just scrapes off and into an old paint tin.

sparkychap - 2021-05-18 09:19:00