Pulling up Carpets to restore original floorboards

Guess_Who

Hi All,

Might sound like a silly question but I just bought a house that needs some work done to it. In a couple of months or so I'll be getting it fully rewired & knocking some internal walls.

Now in the meantime it has the most awful old fashioned patterned carpets that I can't stand the sight of. After the big work on the house is done I plan on restoring the original floorboards.

If I pull up the carpets now do I risk damaging the floorboards while other work is going on? Would I be better leaving the carpet down as some sort of protection or does it really matter? I really hate the look of them so would love to get rid straight away

Thanks in advance

Baybay

Ours had an OK quality underlay which we left down for the heavier work. Made clearing up a bit easier too.

budhabob

Guess_Who wrote: »

Hi All,

Might sound like a silly question but I just bought a house that needs some work done to it. In a couple of months or so I'll be getting it fully rewired & knocking some internal walls.

Now in the meantime it has the most awful old fashioned patterned carpets that I can't stand the sight of. After the big work on the house is done I plan on restoring the original floorboards.

If I pull up the carpets now do I risk damaging the floorboards while other work is going on? Would I be better leaving the carpet down as some sort of protection or does it really matter? I really hate the look of them so would love to get rid straight away

Thanks in advance

We were in a similar situation back in October. Bought a house, very dated carpet EVERYWHERE, needed a full rewire, new heating system etc. Your carpet will offer very minimal protection to the flooring, and it'll gather dust like theres no tomorrow. We left ours down, but in hindsight we should have dumped them all beforehand.

The electrician will need to pull up floor boards etc to run cables. The easier you make the access for him/her, the more likely he'll be gentle. In fact, you could ask him which boards he'd likely need lifted and you could do it yourself. its the lifting the boards where most of the damage was done to ours. in the end we just painted some of them, and are gonna floor the house in stages.

Hope that makes some form of sense.

antiskeptic

Guess_Who wrote: »

Hi All,

Might sound like a silly question but I just bought a house that needs some work done to it. In a couple of months or so I'll be getting it fully rewired & knocking some internal walls.

Now in the meantime it has the most awful old fashioned patterned carpets that I can't stand the sight of. After the big work on the house is done I plan on restoring the original floorboards.

If I pull up the carpets now do I risk damaging the floorboards while other work is going on? Would I be better leaving the carpet down as some sort of protection or does it really matter? I really hate the look of them so would love to get rid straight away

Thanks in advance

The sander is going to remove a decent quantity of surface and most damage is going to be surface damage so I'd pull them out

Guess_Who

Thanks all.
Can't wait to get busy pulling them up now