How To Easily Remove Floor Staples

Press down the handle to pop the staple out of the wood.

How to easily remove floor staples.

There is no magical tool that will guaranty to remove every staple without doing any damage to the surface of the floor. A quick jerk in the middle of the staple with the utility knife usually quickly removes the staple in one piece. Just wedge the tool underneath the staple and pull up on it. But i found that the ease and speed of removing staples using the hook blade out weighs a slower method of prying them out with a screw driver or other tools.

To remove staples from wood use a carpenter s staple remover tool. It will pop out easily. A video tutorial seems like the best way to show this tool in action. Pliers generally do not sit flat as the heads have a slight bevel making it difficult to grab the staple.

This video will show you the fastest way to remove staples from your floor when taking out carpet. When the sharp edge catches the edge of the staples it rips them right out. Remove the carpet and then gently rip off the carpet padding to reveal the staples used to keep the padding in place on your hardwood floors. However sometimes the staples will snap in two and must be pulled out with pliers.

Instead they ve developed a smart efficient way to remove staples with a shovel or long handled floor scraper. If the staple was put in unevenly and only one side pulls out of floor bend the part of staple that s sticking out over the flat of the knife and pry it out diagonally so pressure is applied to the lowest part of staple still in floor. Office staple removers also work on wood. Hold the tool at about a 45 degree angle and slide it forcefully along the floor.

It also shows how to remove carpet pad staples easyhttps. Removing carpet staples from hardwood floors is actually very easy especially when you use a heavy duty staple remover like the swingline 37201 heavy duty staple remover. If you don t have this tool you can use a flathead screwdriver or pliers instead. Removing staples is pretty simple if you have the right tools.