What Will I Find Under My Carpet

You can use a mold testing kit to test the airflow across a carpet.

What will i find under my carpet. You might find the carpet is heavier than you imagined so you might need help carrying it out of the room. Positive results from a mold testing kit. If you don t find the hardwoods you were hoping for use a butter knife to tuck the carpet back under. Most likely it will have many imperfections from lots of paint overspray to footprints to divots where someone dropped something heavy to stains from spills.

Look for any musty odors or discolored patches on the underside of the carpet which are definite signs of mold growth. If you do it s important to find where carpet beetles may be living or laying eggs. I know people who have ripped up carpet to find concrete wood floors and in one case magnificent hardwood that polished up real nice. Bleach water can help but it won.

Find carpet at lowe s today. Seeing beetles especially larvae or their skin can be a sign that you have a carpet beetle infestation. Lift your carpet and thoroughly examine the floor under it. It sounds like you know there s concrete under there but i think some unknowns would be whether it is stained or not and whether there are any big cracks in it from the foundation settling.

So i dug out a hole under the bed in the carpet and put my finger in it to see if i ran into hardwood and lo and behold the strange plaster material. Your contractor will start in the corner of the room and use a flat pry bar to get the edge of the carpet up off the tack strips and to remove the tack strips themselves. Fixing subfloor under carpet. The padding under the carpet also is rolled up and removed but it will be easier to carry.

You may also find live beetles in your windows in the spring and summer months. We weren t so lucky in our new home just finding poorly installed parquet in the office however i m happy that we at least have a room with hardwood for now. It was actually hardwood under there. That concrete will look cool and contemporary right.

The mold spores if any will land on the testing kit. Under the carpet is a pad and under the pad is the concrete. Demolition there s no way to fix the subfloor under carpet without pulling up the carpet.