Do I Need To Repair Carpet Tack Strip Holes Concrete Floors?

Removing carpet from a concrete floor is a fourth dimension consuming procedure. Carpeting still requires tack strips, and tack strips usually smash into the sub-flooring.

Removing tack strips from a concrete flooring leaves behind small nail holes along the outside perimeter of the concrete floor. A blended cement patch compound does a adept job of covering up carpet tack holes on concrete flooring. However, training of the holes and the surrounding physical is necessary to ensure a stiff patch. The Concrete Colorist has become a master of hiding these little holes.

This calendar week I will discuss how to hide the holes with a physical based hole patch.

Brush the holes with a stiff wire brush to remove any loose pieces of concrete. Sometimes loose chips remain unseen until you brush over them. This helps to ensure you patch the entire surface area of the hole.

Remove the debris and concrete dust from the pigsty with a vacuum. Loose particles prevent the patch from adhering to the concrete.

Fill up a bucket with clean water. Dip a rag into the water and wring it out well. Dampen the holes with the rag. Physical draws in moisture. Dampening the concrete before applying the patch helps prevent the concrete from drawing wet from the patch before it fully cures. Practise not moisten so much that there is standing water in the bottom of the holes.

Mix the composite cement patch in a saucepan co-ordinate to the package directions. The physical patch should accept a thick, muddy consistency.

Scoop the patch mixture with the corner of a trowel and press it into the nail holes.

Concord the trowel at an angle once yous fill the holes and swipe over the patch and concrete.

This smooths the patch to the surface level of the concrete floor.

If you are covering holes across a hallway or but want a boarder you lot can tape off a edge.

The holes must ever be filled individually equally trying to float out a whole border at once will leave small indention's where the holes were. Fill the holes first then float out a boarder.

Remove your record before the cement dries. This will brand a sharp edge.