Of all the nasty shit you deal with when doing remodeling, I think I’d shovel flaming asbestos soaked in dog shit before getting near another fucking carpet tack strip.
I just pulled the carpet, padding and fuckingtackstrips from a small room and while everything else was easy and this time the fuckingtackstrips weren’t put down by amateurs using 16d nails…
…I still got bit and bit and bit. FUCK I hate those things. At least I managed not to step on any of them.
I have felt your pain. The last time I had to remove strips, I wore heavy gloves the whole time and always used my flat bar to pry. It minimized the carnage.
I heartily endorse this pit!
When we were redoing the flooring in our house, I did most of the ripping the carpet out. Tack strips are the tools of Satan. It took hammer and chisel to get them off the cement slab foundation.
They make great back-scratchers.
If your into that kind of thing.
They make superb kindling, if you don’t mind throwing out the nails with your ashes.
But, yeah, what a pain.
Screwdriver->Pry bar->woodstove
Climbing on board with this pitting.
What’s the alternative?
Parquet flooring and area rugs, I guess.
Throwing every coked up weirdo who ever thought wall-to-wall carpeting was a good idea straight into the fiery pits of Hades.
One of those little bastards in a door jam got my heal good one time.
Never forgiven and never forgotten.
Very appropriate pitting.
So, did it ever heel from that?
This. At our house the alternative is Pergo and area rugs.
I’d say it was carpitting. Wall to wall.
Yes, but left me with a nasty case of Homonymitis.
I like wall-to-wall carpeting. In some rooms, like bedrooms. I hate rugs, except in some places, like damp floors or bathrooms. Can’t we all just get along?
As long as you don’t make me take my shoes off to walk on your carpet. 
Foot odor!
I’m with ya. I so want to pull up the carpet in my house It has a cement slab underfloor, and the tack strips are somehow nailed into the cement. I pried up a few and it almost killed me AND left divots in the cement.
My solution will be to buy the older boys a case of beer and hand them some heavy prybars.
Then I’m going to paint my floor like the princess tower in Tangled. 