Thank you so much! I am a widow and have to do everything for my self. So everything I do is a learn experience. Thank you for the tip with the shovel. My knees and back thank you also! - Janie G.
Been using a shovel to remove tack strips for years. It's a game changer. Its always fun seeing the puzzled look on clients faces when I bring a shovel inside after removing the carpet and tell them to just watch. The whole room is done in about 3 minutes.
@@LisaNoelleHubbard ME TOO!!! I shoulda known to search UA-cam before grabbing a chisel and mallet! So relieved to find this as I have three walls left in one room plus a whole additional room to do!! Going find my shovel!
Just tried this!!! Thank you so much!!! My husband was working with the bar and hammer on his knees. I wanted a better way for him. I watched this, ran to the garage, came back with a shovel, told him scoot out the way, and bam! He said I was his hero! YES!!! For the win! Bless you! 🙏🏽❤️
That shovel tip just saved me a trip to the hardware store! Genius idea, easily halved the amount of time I would have spent ripping them up the way I was originally doing it. Thanks!
Just used this removing tack strips from stairs. It worked really well (I used a spade not having a shovel). Glad I found it as it's a lot quicker than a hammer & cold chisel, better leverage, less kneeling etc. Thanks for the video.
I want to say I am a 66 year old women and was worried I would not be able to remove the carpet and carpet tack boards by myself. With the help of both your videos it was a game changer. The shovel made it so much easier and my back and knees thank you as well. The hardest part is cutting and removing the carpet from the house.
This literally saved me hours. I had maybe gotten 10 ft. in about an hour trying to pull mine up. Yes I had a crow bar, yes I did research of the basics on how to pull up a tack strip. Mine had been imbedded in old tile all way through to the concrete subfloor. Thank you so much for this video! I watch you on a semi frequent basis. Thank you for all the content you put out and thank you for saving so much time on this project with my tenant moving in, in less than two days!
It worked!!! I was struggling with a hammer and crowbar. Found your video and grabbed a shovel. Literally dislodged all of them in my bedroom in minutes!! Thank you!
Thank you so much for the awesome tip to use a shovel. These strips have been the bane of my existence since I have been removing carpet from rooms in my house. I had been hacking away to no avail and had given up. Using your tip, I got rid of all the strips in a room within minutes. I really appreciate your help!
Thank you so much! Me and my mother re-doing our carpet and The wall strips were the hardest thing to get up and took us a intire day just to get half! Until we used the shovel, we got the other half out in less than five minutes
This is a game changer. I have remove carpet strips with breaker bars. PITA. With the shovel it was soooo much easier. What took two days before, took two hours. Thanks so much!
Just finished ripping up the rest of the carpet and tacks that my husband was planning to do. He will be surprised when he gets home when I mention the shovel trick! Thank you!
That Richards lift bar is what I’ve used to remove those cursed things. No matter how careful I am, anytime I remove carpet I get jagged by the porcupine needles that are very sharp. I love your shovel idea. Thanks Shannon!😃
I just searched this on an impulse and I got the tack strip out of my basement concrete floor with a spade in about 5 minutes. Just a 17×20 room I'm switching to lvp. I'm sure knowing the perfectionist in me will now go in with a chisel and remove any residue, but I'm guessing you saved me an hour. Love the northern (Canadian?) accent.😁
Great video... Now I'm going to remove my ugly carpet myself. Next I'm going to install something other than carpet myself. Videos like yours has saved me so much money. Thank you=)
This comes at an opportune time as I will be doing this shortly... likely this weekend. One big difference is that I will be removing a carpet directly over concrete with no subfloor. Hopefully the process works out just as easily as you displayed on your video. Thanks Shannon.
Totally awesome pro tip! I was doing the pry bar and it was hard and slow! Tried your method and no only saved my knees, it saved me hours and hours of work! It's a life pro tip!
This is a 4 year old video but this a NEW and helpful tip! Why no one mentioned this sooner is beyond me. I'm pulling up tack strips from concrete, although I have to go back for the nails in the concrete, the shovel method has cut the time spent doing this drastically! Now, is their a better way to pull up nails in concrete, without pulling up too much concrete LOL? Meh, I'll be filling those dips , to prepare floor for vinyl plank.
Well that makes a lot more sense! I removed carpet from 3 rooms and a hallway earlier this year on my hands and knees with a bar and hammer the entire time. Will remember this trick for next time. Thank you!
Love your videos! Even when i think i kinda know everything there is about the topic, i always find small very useful tips in your video. Very much appreciated!
This is so great since I already have a shovel in the garage. I thought I would have to go out and by some kind of strip removal tool. Thank you so much!
Thanks Shannon- we’ve removed the carpet the other day and were search for tips on removing the nails. After scrambling around the internet for what to call the wood and nail thingies. Found your tutorial on removing these hella sharp tack strips! The shovel technique looks great- much easier in the body. Heading to buy the appropriate long handled pointed shovel and extras. Would you consider flying over to Melbourne for a small job😁 You made it look easy. Thanks again.
Awesome! I thought that before I watched your channel. I painted a house in 1998 in New Zealand and they asked me how to remove floor tiles. Didn’t know so I said spades
Got a massive pull-up job tomorrow. Gonna get a shovel like this to see if it'll work. Not going on my hands n knees all day trying to pull these strips out the hard and long way.
Wow it works! Actually, I thought of a shovel, but I thought, naw, that would be too easy. I started with a bar, no bueno. So, I got my pneumatic chisel out and that worked better, but still not great. So, I watched your video and got the shovel out. I would say it was twice to three times faster (maybe faster) than the pneumatic chisel. Also, since I'm repainting, I put the shovel between the wall and the strip some of the time (crowded closet for example). Very little damage to the wall. No repairs needed but the paint did get scuffed a little. Then I had to remove some baseboards. Brought out the shovel again, so I didn't have to bend over. Since I'm replacing 4" baseboards with 6" baseboards, there is not damage to repair. Actually, when I was careful, there was no damage (about the same as a bar). If I wanted to go back with 4" baseboards, I could. Thanks for the tip!!!
I was drinkin my coffee tryin to find ways to easily remove tack strips for my shop, came across your video, went down there in my dang slippers and had the whole perimeter de-tacked in 5 minutes. Worked awesome and barely broke a sweat! Thanks again!
Luckily I did a search before ripping up all the tack strips in my basement. A job that would've killed my knees and back and taken forever, took literally 10 minutes. Thanks for posting for a non flooring guy!
I just did a 13x16 room on my butt scooting around taking off tack strip. THAT was not fun and my body was not happy. I have another room to do an 11x13 and im excited to try the shovel method thanks for the tip
Man ….I thank God you and for this video🙏.I been on my hand and knees with a flathead screwdriver and a hammer ,bout broke my thumb 😂😂 for like 45 mins ,My back was killing me ,but thanks for video.I’ll be at Home Depot getting that shovel asap💪
Im not sure if you could make a video on this.. but i have tile in my dining area and the people who installed years ago did a terrible job and now its all cracked and everything. We just installed vinyl wood plankings in the kitchen and bathroom and we plan to do the entire house in it. Could you make a video possible showing or explaining how to break up the tiles and to make it possible to lay plankings on it?
Thank you so much! I am a widow and have to do everything for my self. So everything I do is a learn experience. Thank you for the tip with the shovel. My knees and back thank you also! - Janie G.
THIS is exactly me!! I am now headed to my shed for the shovel. Thank GOD!
Been using a shovel to remove tack strips for years. It's a game changer. Its always fun seeing the puzzled look on clients faces when I bring a shovel inside after removing the carpet and tell them to just watch. The whole room is done in about 3 minutes.
I have been on my 50 yr old knees for days! I am so sore! I am trying this!!
@@LisaNoelleHubbard ME TOO!!! I shoulda known to search UA-cam before grabbing a chisel and mallet! So relieved to find this as I have three walls left in one room plus a whole additional room to do!! Going find my shovel!
The difference of being a pro. No way I could finish a room in 3 minutes! Good work!
Just tried this!!! Thank you so much!!! My husband was working with the bar and hammer on his knees. I wanted a better way for him. I watched this, ran to the garage, came back with a shovel, told him scoot out the way, and bam! He said I was his hero! YES!!! For the win! Bless you! 🙏🏽❤️
That shovel tip just saved me a trip to the hardware store! Genius idea, easily halved the amount of time I would have spent ripping them up the way I was originally doing it. Thanks!
Just used this removing tack strips from stairs. It worked really well (I used a spade not having a shovel). Glad I found it as it's a lot quicker than a hammer & cold chisel, better leverage, less kneeling etc. Thanks for the video.
I want to say I am a 66 year old women and was worried I would not be able to remove the carpet and carpet tack boards by myself. With the help of both your videos it was a game changer. The shovel made it so much easier and my back and knees thank you as well. The hardest part is cutting and removing the carpet from the house.
This literally saved me hours. I had maybe gotten 10 ft. in about an hour trying to pull mine up. Yes I had a crow bar, yes I did research of the basics on how to pull up a tack strip. Mine had been imbedded in old tile all way through to the concrete subfloor.
Thank you so much for this video! I watch you on a semi frequent basis. Thank you for all the content you put out and thank you for saving so much time on this project with my tenant moving in, in less than two days!
Just tested on concrete and it worked with the shovel on most of it. Came to second just take it easy and it should work.
This video is God sent.
I'm almost 70 years old and I appreciate your video.
It worked!!! I was struggling with a hammer and crowbar. Found your video and grabbed a shovel. Literally dislodged all of them in my bedroom in minutes!! Thank you!
Oh my that's so AWESOME!!! Will be doing the same ! :-) I've been dreading having to do it.
Thank you so much for the awesome tip to use a shovel. These strips have been the bane of my existence since I have been removing carpet from rooms in my house. I had been hacking away to no avail and had given up. Using your tip, I got rid of all the strips in a room within minutes. I really appreciate your help!
This was a great trip, I just pulled some carpet up a few days ago and haven't wanted to go find my pry bar to pull up the tack strips
Thank you so much! Me and my mother re-doing our carpet and The wall strips were the hardest thing to get up and took us a intire day just to get half! Until we used the shovel, we got the other half out in less than five minutes
I don't know what we would do without you Shannon. Thanks a lot. Very helpfull video.
This is a game changer. I have remove carpet strips with breaker bars. PITA. With the shovel it was soooo much easier. What took two days before, took two hours. Thanks so much!
Thank you!! My hardwood floors are original to my 1920's house and I was totally able to use the shovel method without damaging them.
Came to ask if I could use a shovel on the wood floors. Pry bar took a small chunk out of the floor.
@@nickadeesmile9822 I went very slowly and just eased my way along. I happened to have a shovel in the garage that looked the same.
Just finished ripping up the rest of the carpet and tacks that my husband was planning to do. He will be surprised when he gets home when I mention the shovel trick! Thank you!
You can do it!
That Richards lift bar is what I’ve used to remove those cursed things. No matter how careful I am, anytime I remove carpet I get jagged by the porcupine needles that are very sharp. I love your shovel idea. Thanks Shannon!😃
Yes they will get you!
I just searched this on an impulse and I got the tack strip out of my basement concrete floor with a spade in about 5 minutes. Just a 17×20 room I'm switching to lvp. I'm sure knowing the perfectionist in me will now go in with a chisel and remove any residue, but I'm guessing you saved me an hour. Love the northern (Canadian?) accent.😁
Canadian
I’m glad I checked the comments, was wondering if it worked on concrete
I want to say you are a genius! The shovel made my project fly! Thank you so much for the suggestion.
Great video... Now I'm going to remove my ugly carpet myself. Next I'm going to install something other than carpet myself. Videos like yours has saved me so much money. Thank you=)
Started out with the bar method then I found your video. Saved me so much time and saved my knees. Thank you
This comes at an opportune time as I will be doing this shortly... likely this weekend. One big difference is that I will be removing a carpet directly over concrete with no subfloor. Hopefully the process works out just as easily as you displayed on your video. Thanks Shannon.
the shovel method will not likely work. A bigger bar is usually the best and hit right at the nails to pop them out.
Just did it with a shovel, will never do it the old way again, thanks for the tip, what a time saver
That shovel trick saved me HOURS of time! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this! I was stressing over how hard it was to get the strips up but this made it SO much easier.
Shannon to the rescue as always. Thank you. I was dreading the prybar method again
You're a genius - that shovel trick is BRILLIANT! Thanks.
Totally awesome pro tip! I was doing the pry bar and it was hard and slow! Tried your method and no only saved my knees, it saved me hours and hours of work! It's a life pro tip!
Glad it helped!
Thanks for this tip! Life changing!! Much, much faster than the old fashioned hammer and bar method. And way easier on your back too.
This is a 4 year old video but this a NEW and helpful tip! Why no one mentioned this sooner is beyond me. I'm pulling up tack strips from concrete, although I have to go back for the nails in the concrete, the shovel method has cut the time spent doing this drastically! Now, is their a better way to pull up nails in concrete, without pulling up too much concrete LOL? Meh, I'll be filling those dips , to prepare floor for vinyl plank.
Thank you for this tip! I removed al of the tack strip in two rooms and I still can not believe how easy!
Half way done, I searched YT vids for help. Thanks for saving my sore back and knees!
BRO! I just got hired to remove carpet and I have a jacked up knee injury from basketball and this just saved my knees!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for this!! I tried it today and it made my job so much easier.
It took a minute to catch the flow and get it done quick. Thanks, you're a legend!
Well that makes a lot more sense! I removed carpet from 3 rooms and a hallway earlier this year on my hands and knees with a bar and hammer the entire time. Will remember this trick for next time. Thank you!
😅 you sir have just saved my back! I’ve put the job off all week wondering how I’m going to get it done now I’m excited to get on the job!
Love your videos! Even when i think i kinda know everything there is about the topic, i always find small very useful tips in your video. Very much appreciated!
I found this video and used this trick today on my concrete floor. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Amazing video!!
OMG, this just made my day and removing 5 rooms a tack strips a breeze. Thank You.
This is so great since I already have a shovel in the garage. I thought I would have to go out and by some kind of strip removal tool. Thank you so much!
The shovel trick worked like a charm. Thanks a ton!
Thank you for the tip just did a whole bedroom in under five minutes save my back thanks again
Thank you. So easy this way. Saves the knees & long hours of work
Dope idea! Removing them on Monday and they might have saved tons of time!
Thank you for the great info... I have bad knees and you gave me a new idea with the shovel...!
Yes! Thank you for helping an old man.
Thanks for the video! I'm about to get into replacing my carpet with wood planks.
oh man thanks so much. my strips were on super tight, this saved my life.
I'm about to work on a room removing carpet tack strips. This is genius.
Thanks Shannon- we’ve removed the carpet the other day and were search for tips on removing the nails. After scrambling around the internet for what to call the wood and nail thingies. Found your tutorial on removing these hella sharp tack strips! The shovel technique looks great- much easier in the body. Heading to buy the appropriate long handled pointed shovel and extras. Would you consider flying over to Melbourne for a small job😁 You made it look easy. Thanks again.
seems like a long flight for a quick job ! LOL.
Awesome! I thought that before I watched your channel. I painted a house in 1998 in New Zealand and they asked me how to remove floor tiles. Didn’t know so I said spades
Just bought our first house and heading over to remove tack strips today. Looks like we will be making a quick stop at the hardware store first!
Thanks so much for this! The shovel really made this easier!
THANH YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! worked like a charm, gone in 20 minutes tacks and all!!!
God bless you, sir! The shovel trick worked great! Thanks so much!
Very helpful , lessons learned and will save old age back&knees
i love it! don cha know! i been waiting for years to have my hubby do this, and now i am doing it myself. if i can find the shovel!
This is a game changer! Removed in 7mins!! Thank you for sharing;)
Good to see you are safe Shannon.
Got a massive pull-up job tomorrow. Gonna get a shovel like this to see if it'll work. Not going on my hands n knees all day trying to pull these strips out the hard and long way.
Thank you for your advice.. I started using a hammer and chisel which was taking a long time then I came across this very helpful video..
Man, thank you SO MUCH!! Works like a charm and saved my back and time. Great tip!
Always good to have a sharp spade handy. Also superior in self defense situations!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thaaaaaaaaank you!!!! This is why I love UA-cam!!!
Wow it works! Actually, I thought of a shovel, but I thought, naw, that would be too easy. I started with a bar, no bueno. So, I got my pneumatic chisel out and that worked better, but still not great. So, I watched your video and got the shovel out. I would say it was twice to three times faster (maybe faster) than the pneumatic chisel. Also, since I'm repainting, I put the shovel between the wall and the strip some of the time (crowded closet for example). Very little damage to the wall. No repairs needed but the paint did get scuffed a little.
Then I had to remove some baseboards. Brought out the shovel again, so I didn't have to bend over. Since I'm replacing 4" baseboards with 6" baseboards, there is not damage to repair. Actually, when I was careful, there was no damage (about the same as a bar). If I wanted to go back with 4" baseboards, I could.
Thanks for the tip!!!
Love this!!!!! Thank you for sharing this tip!!! Our floor guys charge us extra to remove these
Thanks for watching!
Well now, wished I would have watched this a few days ago, but will definitely help with the remaining rooms. Thanks!
Thank you for that. I'm a woman getting my big bedroom carpet up. Saved my knees and time.
Thank you so much for this fantastic information!! Work smarter not harder.
Oh man I’m gonna go try this right now. I know you posted this a long time ago but super helpful - thank ya sir!
I was drinkin my coffee tryin to find ways to easily remove tack strips for my shop, came across your video, went down there in my dang slippers and had the whole perimeter de-tacked in 5 minutes. Worked awesome and barely broke a sweat! Thanks again!
Thank you, same here, older lady doing it alone. Much obliged
25 years of installing carpet and never thought to have a shovel in the van great idea im gonna try that
You just saved me 2 hours of work!
I loooove the shovel trick!! Thank you!
Luckily I did a search before ripping up all the tack strips in my basement. A job that would've killed my knees and back and taken forever, took literally 10 minutes.
Thanks for posting for a non flooring guy!
Thank you for this tip! Wish I had known about it years ago. Maybe then my back and knees would be in such bad shape.
OMGGGG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR THE INFO I GOT IT DONE IN 6 MINS COMPARED TO 30 !!!!!!
Thank you! I just had water come into my basement, and had to pull up the carpet. Still have to pull up those tacks.
Ouch. The shovel in my humble opinion seems easier.
This is why I'm subscribed to you.
Thank you for this!!! I have been looking for a much simpler way
Thank you for saving me time and my lower back thanks you even more.
Great idea using a shovel! Thanks!
I'm glad I looked at youtube on my break.
Nice. I like the easy way. I used a mattock to remove hardwood flooring last year and it worked great.
Good stuff!
I just did a 13x16 room on my butt scooting around taking off tack strip. THAT was not fun and my body was not happy. I have another room to do an 11x13 and im excited to try the shovel method thanks for the tip
Great tip. Will show this to my husband and son. Thanks for sharing!
Man ….I thank God you and for this video🙏.I been on my hand and knees with a flathead screwdriver and a hammer ,bout broke my thumb 😂😂 for like 45 mins ,My back was killing me ,but thanks for video.I’ll be at Home Depot getting that shovel asap💪
Love that easy way! Thanks for the tip! I will be trying that out!
Made so much easier for me to remove the tracks. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Easiest way ever! Thank God for u
Another great video! Did you do one about removing tack strips from wood floors without damaging then?
I do not have one for that. Basically use a Red bar and be careful .amzn.to/3qOW7nR
Dude, you killed it with the shovel
Appreciate making it easier for an 82 y/o man to remove tack strips.
I have a bad right knee. Thanks so much. I don't know how I am going to install hardwood flooring with my bad knee. But hell, I'll give it a try!
Love the shovel method 👍🏴
Im not sure if you could make a video on this.. but i have tile in my dining area and the people who installed years ago did a terrible job and now its all cracked and everything. We just installed vinyl wood plankings in the kitchen and bathroom and we plan to do the entire house in it. Could you make a video possible showing or explaining how to break up the tiles and to make it possible to lay plankings on it?
Roofing shovel works really good for the tack stripe and padding staples
Thank You for the shovel tip Sir❤
Thank you. After getting a blood blister in one of my fingers fighting to get them up I decided to get wise and see what UA-cam had lol. Bless ya