Depending on the amount of light you get down there you may want to use a light colored stain if not much natural light or if a lot of natural light go with the darker leather color.
Ripping out carpet and staining concrete.
If there isn t a program available be sure to check with your trash hauler before starting your project to see if short rolls of carpet will be accepted.
It would have cost us over 3000 for new carpet and more than that for tile or wood floors and we purchased the items needed to stain the concrete ourselves and instead got the job done for less than 600 and have ended up with a much better outcome in my opinion.
Installing new carpet yourself usually isn t smart.
But tearing out the old carpet does.
Find out if your area has a carpet recycling program.
Stained concrete would be much cleaner and smell fresher than carpet in the finished basement.
Remove the 3 foot wide carpet sections from the tack strips by shaking the carpet in a back and forth motion while pulling it up from the surface of the floor.
This is achieved via the cleaning and etching stage prior to any staining.
When you consider the rental cost of special tools your time and the risk of wrecking an expensive piece of carpet it just doesn t make sense.
Ceramic tile or sheet vinyl from an existing concrete subfloor and then stain or polish it.
Concrete stain will adhere to any form of concrete as long as the pores are open and ready to receive the stain.
And in some cases it s even possible to go right over the existing floor covering with a decorative concrete overlay or microtopping.
The carpet will be connected to the concrete surface via a series of wooden strips to which the carpet is tacked.
No more renting carpet cleaner or freaking out when something is spilled i just.
Remove any doors including closet or bathroom doors that open into the room where you ll be ripping up carpet.
Tips on installing concrete floors if you have carpet.
Depending on where you live an installer will charge 3 to 5 per square yard for tear out.