Deciding what color to paint the floor is the fun part.
Pull out that old carpet and paint the floor to give your bedroom a new look. Carpet is held to the floor with tack strips around the perimeter edges. Once the carpet is ripped up and removed from the room, the tack strips have to be lifted with a pry bar. Cleaning the floor of the bedroom is then done using a paintbrush and roller. The paint required must be formulated to hold up under foot traffic.
Instructions
Taking the Carpet Out
1. Grip the fibers along the edges of the carpet with a pair of pliers and pull up and out into the middle of the room. Pull hard to get the carpet to rip away from the tack strip nails.
2. Roll the carpet up and ask someone to help you carry it out of the room. Roll up the carpet padding and haul it out of the room as well.
3. Put on a pair of thick leather work gloves. Locate the nails in the tack strips holding the strips to the floor. Set the blade of the pry bar against the tack strip next to one of the nails, then tap it with a hammer to get the bar under the tack strip. Push down on the pry bar handle to lift the nail and tack strip up out of the floor. Repeat this process all the way around the room until all tack strips have been removed.
4. Sweep the floor with a broom and pick up debris with a dustpan. Vacuum the floor, especially along the walls.
Painting the Floor
5. Load a tube of caulk into a caulking gun and cut the tip off with a utility knife. Caulk all of the cracks and seams in the floor.
6. Pour a half gallon of primer paint into a paint tray and dip a paintbrush into it until the bristles are wet with paint. Paint the edges of the floor all the way around the perimeter. Paint a 4-inch border with the brush and roll over it with a mini roller.
7. Slip a half-inch nap roller cover over the spindle of the roller frame and dip the roller into the primer until the nap fibers are soaked with paint. Screw an extension pole into the handle of the frame.
8. Roll paint onto the floor along the previously painted border, furthest from the exit. Roll the entire floor in back and forth zigzag patterns to even out all lap lines. Paint continuously toward the exit. Allow the primer to dry for 24 hours, then apply a floor finish paint the same way.
