# I triple-dog-Pit carpet tack strips
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 12, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739 "2013-11-12T18:36:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/1 "2013-11-12T18:36:07Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/2 "2013-11-12T18:42:37Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/3 "2013-11-12T18:43:21Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/4 "2013-11-13T02:15:18Z")
They make great back-scratchers.
If your into that kind of thing.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/5 "2013-11-13T02:25:32Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/6 "2013-11-13T03:27:02Z")
Climbing on board with this pitting.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/7 "2013-11-13T03:28:19Z")
What’s the alternative?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/8 "2013-11-13T06:58:21Z")
Parquet flooring and area rugs, I guess.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/9 "2013-11-13T08:34:24Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> What’s the alternative?
Throwing every coked up weirdo who ever thought wall-to-wall carpeting was a good idea straight into the fiery pits of Hades.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/10 "2013-11-13T15:11:26Z")
One of those little bastards in a door jam got my heal good one time.
Never forgiven and never forgotten.
Very appropriate pitting.
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/11 "2013-11-13T16:24:43Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#):
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> One of those little bastards in a door jam got my heal good one time.
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> Never forgiven and never forgotten.
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> Very appropriate pitting.
So, did it ever heel from that?
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/12 "2013-11-13T16:26:59Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> Throwing every coked up weirdo who ever thought wall-to-wall carpeting was a good idea straight into the fiery pits of Hades.
This. At our house the alternative is Pergo and area rugs.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/13 "2013-11-13T17:18:28Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#):
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> Very appropriate pitting.
I’d say it was carpitting. Wall to wall.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/14 "2013-11-13T20:37:07Z")
> [@RitterSport](#):
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> So, did it ever heel from that?
Yes, but left me with a nasty case of Homonymitis.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/15 "2013-11-13T20:49:24Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/16 "2013-11-13T20:56:58Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> Can’t we all just get along?
As long as you don’t make me take my shoes off to walk on your carpet. 😉
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/17 "2013-11-15T16:59:30Z")
> [@rhiannon8404](#):
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> as long as you don’t make me take my shoes off to walk on your carpet. 😉
**Foot odor!**
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### Author:  [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-triple-dog-pit-carpet-tack-strips/673739/18 "2013-11-15T17:36:05Z")
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. 🙂